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| | Facts | - Every 238 years, the orbits of Neptune and Pluto change making Neptune at times the farthest planet from the sun.
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(Added: Thu Jan 12 2006) - In proportion, if Jupiter were a basketball, then the sun would be the size of the Louisiana Super Dome.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - If you were standing on Mercury, the Sun would appear 2.5 times larger than it appears from Earth.
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(Added: Mon May 31 2004) - Even though red roses looks the same, there are over 900 different types of red roses.
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(Added: Mon May 31 2004) - Jupiter's Great Red Spot is 25,000 miles wide.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Astronomers once believed a planet named Vulcan existed between Mercury and the Sun.
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(Added: Thu Jan 12 2006) - Jupiter is the fastest rotating planet, which can complete one revolution in less than ten hours.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The ancient Greeks had a fascination with the planet Mars. They attributed the planet to Ares, their god of war, because of its red colour.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Neptune was the first planet in our solar system to be discovered by mathematics.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Uranus' winter and summer seasons last the equivalent of 21 Earth years.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - One Neptune year lasts 165 Earth years.
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