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21 Nov 2009

The cliffs on Uranus's moon Miranda are 20,000 metres high.

Hydrogen is the most abundant element (about 94 percent) in Saturn's atmosphere, then helium (about 6 percent).

There are over 100 billion stars in our Milky Way Galaxy.

A dog was killed by a meteor at Nakhla, Egypt, in 1911. The unlucky canine is the only creature known to have been killed by a meteor.

Planetary scientist and crater expert Dr. Jay Melosh, from the University of Arizona, has estimated that about half a ton of Martian material falls to Earth each year.

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