Friday, September 14, 2007

Earth facts


5,865,696,000,000 - The amount of miles in a light year.

More than 20 million meteroids enter Earth’s atmosphere every day. Most are no bigger than a speck of dust.

The largest painting on earth is a 72437 square foot smiley face.

The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.

Gold is the only metal that doesn’t rust, even if it’s buried in the ground for thousands of years.

The winds on Saturn blow at 1,200 mph. 10 times faster than a strong Earth hurricane.

The average iceberg weighs 20,000,000 tons!

A diamond is the hardest natural substance.

Earth’s oceans contain 7 1/2 million tons of gold, dissolved in the water.

The energy given off by a hurricane in one day would power the entire U.S for three years.

The sun is 93,000,000 miles from the earth.

There is enough energy in one bolt of lightning to power a home for two weeks.

Io, a moon of jupiter, has the most active volcanoes in the solar system.

Hydrogen can be a metal, but it is only in a solid state under extreme conditions such as being in the core of Jupiter!

Rain falls at an average speed of 22 mph.

1 comment:

alvin ben said...

the average rain drop dosen't fall at 22mph,it falls at 18mph.