Amazing facts about space
1.The Sun is over 300000 times larger than earth.
2.The Sun loses up to a billion kilograms a second due to solar winds.
3.If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.4.Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system with a surface temperature of over 450 degrees Celsius.
5.Earth has at least 4 moons.
6.The Solar System formed around 4.6 billion years ago.
7.Uranus was originally called George’s Star.
8.The Big Dipper is not a constellation, it is an asterism.
9.The only planet that rotates on its side like a barrel is Uranus. The only planet that spins backwards relative to the others is Venus.
10.It is because of the Sun & Moons gravity that we have high & low tides.
11.The first man made object sent into space was in 1957 when the Russian satellite named Sputnik was launched.
12.Because of lower gravity, a person who weighs 100kg on earth would only weigh 38kg on the surface of Mars.
13.The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
14.The moon is drifting away from Earth.
15.If you put Saturn in water it would float.
2.The Sun loses up to a billion kilograms a second due to solar winds.
3.If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.4.Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system with a surface temperature of over 450 degrees Celsius.
5.Earth has at least 4 moons.
6.The Solar System formed around 4.6 billion years ago.
7.Uranus was originally called George’s Star.
8.The Big Dipper is not a constellation, it is an asterism.
9.The only planet that rotates on its side like a barrel is Uranus. The only planet that spins backwards relative to the others is Venus.
10.It is because of the Sun & Moons gravity that we have high & low tides.
11.The first man made object sent into space was in 1957 when the Russian satellite named Sputnik was launched.
12.Because of lower gravity, a person who weighs 100kg on earth would only weigh 38kg on the surface of Mars.
13.The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
14.The moon is drifting away from Earth.
15.If you put Saturn in water it would float.
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