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SCIENCE TRIVIAS

The largest moon in the Solar System Jupiter's Ganymede is even bigger than
planet Mercury.
The entire surface area of Pluto is smaller than Russia.
The Moon is moving away from the Earth 3.8 cm every year.
There are three golf balls on the Moon (left by Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard in
1971.)
With the strongest winds, Neptune is the windiest planet in the Solar System.
95% of all matter in the universe is invisible, and is called the Dark Matter.
Proxima Centauri is the nearest star to us after the Sun.
All 27 of Uranus moons are named after William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope
characters.
With 63 moons, Jupiter has the largest number of moons.
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are made up of just gas with no solid surface to
land on.
Jupiter is so big that twice the mass of the rest of our Solar System's planets
combined would still not be enough to equal its mass.
Pluto is no longer considered a planet. It is now known as a "Dwarf Planet".

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