orbit, n.Trivia

Jupiter is spinning so fast that there is a new sunrise nearly every 10 hours

the International Space Station doesn't fall back to earth it's because once a month it fires its thrusters to regain the lost altitude.

Pluto's orbit around the sun takes 248 Earth-years

Pluto has only moved about one third of the way around its orbit since we discovered it in 1930.

Pluto is so far out that it takes 248 years for it to orbit the sun once

Uranus takes 84 years to orbit the sun.

The earth is rotating at a speed of 1,040 MPH

It takes our solar system about 240 million years to complete one orbit of the Galaxy.

Earth has traveled more than 5,000 miles in the past five minutes.

Pluto is sometimes closer to the Sun than Neptune (this last happened from 1979 to 1999)O

Earth is the farthest away from the sun in July and the closest in January.

On Venus a day is longer than a year

Pluto will complete its first full orbit since its discovery on Monday, March 23rd, 2178.

It takes Saturn about 29 Earth years to completely orbit the sun.

The moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days