Random and interesting astronomy facts

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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.

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So many cool facts! cheers

The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.

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astrolover wrote:: So many cool facts!

The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.

It's great for beginners Smile

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.

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The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.

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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)! Shocked

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The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.

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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.

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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.

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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick...

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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.

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Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on earth xD

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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!

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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.

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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!

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If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.

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Astronauts cannot burp in space.

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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.

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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.

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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.

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astrowolf67 wrote:: All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.

I never noticed that before ! Suspect

A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!

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A comet's tail always points away from the sun..

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41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.

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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.

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We know more about space than we do about our deep oceans!