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  • In proportion, if Jupiter were a basketball, then the sun would be the size of the Louisiana Super Dome.
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    (Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
  • Jupiter's Great Red Spot is 25,000 miles wide.
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  • Jupiter is the fastest rotating planet, which can complete one revolution in less than ten hours.
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  • 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: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
  • Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side.
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  • Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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  • Neptune was the first planet in our solar system to be discovered by mathematics.
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  • Uranus' winter and summer seasons last the equivalent of 21 Earth years.
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  • If you were standing on Mercury, the Sun would appear 2.5 times larger than it appears from Earth.
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    (Added: Sat May 31 2008 By Gauher)
  • Even though red roses looks the same, there are over 900 different types of red roses.
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    (Added: Sat May 31 2008 By Gauher)
  • Astronomers once believed a planet named Vulcan existed between Mercury and the Sun.
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    (Added: Sat Jan 12 2008 By Gauher)



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