Mark's Extensive and Exhaustively Researched Gallery of Completely, Totally, and Utterly Useless Facts about Space The Planet
Pluto takes 248n Earth years to orbit the sun. For Twenty
of those years it is closer to the sun 5Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of it's surface tension. One Day on the planet Pluto is about the length of a week on Earth Pluto has one moon called Charon Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon. Driving at 75 miles per hour, it would take 258 days to drive around one of Saturn's rings. For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530kg of excess fuel are needed at lift off. 8 Facts |