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Space

  1. Planet earth is not round?
  2. Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoonful would weigh more than all the people on Earth?
  3. Space shuttles travel at approximately 17000 miles per hour?
  4. Antarctica is one of the best place in the world to find meteorites. Dark meteorites show in the snow and dont get covered by vegetation?
  5. When you see a full moon you will see the same side every time?
  6. The longest possible eclipse of the Sun is 7.31 minutes?
  7. Sweden has only one astronaut, Christer Fuglesang?
  8. Marc Garneau was the first Canadian astronaut to fly in space?
  9. Pluto is no longer considered as a planet?
  10. Halley's comet nears the earth every 76 years? Halley's comet is next scheduled to return in 2062?
  11. There is no sound in space?
  12. Every year the sun loses 360 million tons?
  13. A year on Mars is almost twice as long as on Earth?
  14. Earth is not round, it is slightly pear-shaped?
  15. Gravity is so much greater on the sun that a man weighing 150 pounds on the earth would weigh about 2 tons on the sun?
  16. If the sun suddenly stopped shining it would take eight minutes for people on earth to be aware of it?
  17. The distance between the earth and moon is increasing over 30 cm each year?
  18. The first spacecraft to reach the Moon was in 1959?
  19. Our earth is also a magnet?
  20. Each day the sun causes about one trillion tons of water to evaporate?
  21. More than 1 million Earths could fit inside the sun. The Sun is by far the largest object in our solar system?
  22. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise?
  23. Mars is home to the largest known volcano in the Solar System?
  24. The coldest place in our solar system is Neptune's moon Triton?
  25. Comets are a mixture of ice and dust that failed to come together as a planet. Some people called them "dirty snowballs"?
  26. All planets in our solar system orbit the sun in the same direction?
  27. The tallest astronaut ever in space was Jim Wetherbee, standing 1.93 m tall?
  28. Astronauts grow in space?
  29. The Great Comet in 1843 had a tail that was over 300 kilometres long?
  30. US space shuttles weight about 4.5 million pounds at lift off?
  31. Mars looks red because it's covered by rust?
  32. Astronauts cant burp in space. A burp would need gravity to separate the liquid from the gas in their stomach?
  33. The only satellite ever to be destroyed by a satellite was the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993?
  34. The Sun has a mass of about 2 x 1030 kg?
  35. About 1000 tons of material enters the atmosphere each year and land on the earths surface?
  36. The earth has a mass of about 5.98 x 1024 kg?
  37. Mercury is closest to the sun but the planet Venus is the hottest planet?
  38. The only month in history not to have a full moon is February 1865?
  39. One calendar year can contain a maximum of seven eclipses of the Sun and Moon?
  40. The moon reflects only 6% of all light which falls upon it?
  41. Some of the moons in our solar system are larger than some of the planets?
  42. Of all planets, only Mercury and Venus do not have any moons?
  43. The first geologist on the moon was Harrison Schmitt?