Unknown facts about our galaxy----MILKY WAY

• Mercury moves around the Sun faster than any other planet. It travels about 30 miles per second, and goes around the Sun every 88 Earth days.
• Mercury's brightness and size change as it orbits the Sun.
• Temperature on Venus is a nice warm 867 degrees Fahrenheit. This is hot enough to melt lead.
• The air pressure on Venus would be enough to crush a human being, a building or an entire city.
• The winds on Venus average 240 miles per hour. In comparison, the worst hurricanes on Earth can produce winds that are 150 miles per hour.
• There are two cores inside Earth- the outer core and the inner core. The temperature in the inner core is 9000 degrees Fahrenheit.That is hotter than the Sun's surface.
• In the Southern Hemisphere of Mars, there is also a basin that is deep enough to swallow Mount Everest.
• It would take over 1000 Earths to fill up Jupiter.
• A person who weighs 100 pounds on Earth would weigh as much as 240 pounds on Jupiter.
• 1 year on Saturn equals 29 Earth years.
• The rings of Saturn are created as the planet moves. Gases, dust, ice water and boulders spin around and create the rings. The major rings can measure 180,000 miles across.
• It takes 84 Earth years for Uranus to orbit the Sun.
• The coldest in our solar system is on Triton which gives of a chilly temperature of -390 degree Fahrenheit.
• Pluto has a moon Charon, the moon is of the same size as Pluto. Many people refer to Pluto and Charon as twin planets.
• It takes Pluto about 248 Earth years to make it around the Sun. 

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