Crazy Facts About Cosmic Space

Interesting and Crazy Facts About Cosmic Space

• The Earth has only one satellite, the Moon. The Moon is the second brightest object in the sky.
  
  
• The Earth travels at an orbital speed of 108,000 km (67,000 miles) an hour.
  
  
• The Earth is the densest planet in the Solar System.
  
  
• 71% of Earth's surface is covered in water.
  
  
• The Earth is around 4.6 billion years old.
  
  
• Earth is the fifth largest planet in the Solar System.
  
  
• The only planet without a ring is earth.
  
  
• It is 4.2 light-years to the nearest star from our solar-system.
  
  
• A "sysygy" occurs when all the planets of the our Solar System line up.
  
  
• On February 6, 1971 the first golf ball was hit on the moon by Alan Shepard.
  
  
• The International Space Station weighs about 500 tons and is the same size as a football field.
  
  
• If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
  
  
• Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
  
  
• Ten tons of space dust falls on the Earth every day.
  
  
• Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.
  
  
• Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
  
  
• The moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year. Do the math and you will clearly see that 85 million years ago it was orbiting the earth at a distance of about 35 feet from the earth's surface. This would explain the death of the dinosours; the tallest ones, anyway.
  
  
• It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
  
  
• In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.
  
  
• 99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.