Facts in category: 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. |
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