SPACE FACTS...................

* The entire atmosphere weighs 5,700,000,000,000,000 tons-that's 57 trillion tons!!!!
**The largest meteorite ever found on Earth fell in Namibia,Africa.It originally weighed 100 tons.
***Through a telescope saturn looks squished.Because it is mostly gas and liquid it gets slightly compressed as it spins very quickly.
****Mercury whizzes around the sun at 30 miles (about 50 kms) per second.
*****If you are 12 years old on earth,you will be only 1 year old on jupiter.
******Saturn's ring particles vary in size from grains of sugar to the size of a house.
*******The solar system orbits the galaxy about once every 250 million years.thus it has gone around the galaxy 15 to 20 times.
********If you are on the equator,you can view all of the constellations over the course of year.If you are on the north or south pole you will be able to see only half of the sky.