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In 1966 there was a massive meteor shower, the Leonid Meteors, went past North America and east USSR, 2200 passed above the state of Arizona, a minute.
The aurorae has been seen 1000KM high above Earth, and some only 72 km above Earth,
A Aurorare spelt Aurorae was sighted at Cuzco in Peru in 1774, Hawaii in 1859 and possibly Singapore in 1909,
The first human landing on the Moon, was in 1959, when a Soviet Space probe Lunar 2, hit it,
If you look up at the Moon, Apollo 11, the first on the Moon, by people landed, just to the lower right of the centre.
Records of comets go back to the 7th Century BC at least
With records of a Supernova possibly to 1006, when one flared for 2 years,
Venus is the second closest large planet or Moon to Earth.
A Swedish museum made a scale model of the Solar System in 1986, the Earth had a diameter of 13MM, Proxima Centauri, said by many to be the nearest star to our Sun,
Mercury travels faster round the Sun than any other planet
The largest Constellation is Hydra which spans 68 stars and 6.3% of the hemisphere, it means sea serpent, constelations were thought up by many cultures,
A Planetarium was built in Japan in 1987 with a dome diameter of 27 metres.
The Hubble Telescope is 13 metres long,
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An Index for our sites, with links to 100s of our greatest sites.
The 10 Worst Regimes of the 20th Century
The 11 Highest Volcanoes on Earth in 2006
A Site stating the most famous walls in the world today
A site stating the most famous gates
Global Geography, sites like what are the 10 largest English speaking countries, or 10 largest Celtic cities, or biggest forests, etc. etc.,
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http://www.turtletrack.org/Issues00/Co02262000/CO_02262000_Meteorite.htm largest meteor from the USA
http://www.skymapper.co.uk/html/comet_trivia.html A site mentioing which comet is largest
http://www.nineplanets.org/intro.html
http://www.lonympics.co.uk/Olympus Mons.htm Tallest mountain, and volcano in the solar system, and Mars.
http://www.shallowsky.com/moon/ruklVII.html Info on the highest mountian on the moon.
http://2003 UB313nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/mgn_c260n033_2.html Tallest mountian onVenus
http://members.fortunecity.com/volcanopele/beginners.htm Info on tallest mountian on the moon IO
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/
A Multiple Choice Quiz on Space
The Lonympics Space centre, loads of sites on space
A Clock saying how many people have landed on each planet in our Solar System
Some more intresting facts on the Solar System, http://www.lonympics.co.uk/solarsystemrecordbreakers2.htm
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