25 Crazy Facts About Our Solar System
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From planets that would float to the true size of the sun, these are 25 crazy facts about our solar system. https://twitter.com/list25 https://www.facebook.com/list25 http://list25.com Check out the text version too! - http://list25.com/25-crazy-facts-about-our-solar-system/ Here's a preview: There is an asteroid called 243 Ida that has its own moon This is the clearest picture we have of Pluto This isn't the Death Star. It's Mimas, a moon of Saturn, and it's one of the most heavily cratered objects in the Solar System. Ganymede is the largest moon in the Solar System. If it were orbiting the sun instead of Jupiter it wouldn't even be the smallest planet (Mercury is smaller). Recently scientists discovered another ring around Saturn that can only be seen with infrared. It's so big that only a picture would do it justice. Eris is the largest dwarf planet in the solar system and it orbits the sun at three times the distance of Pluto. It isn't nearly the farthest object in the solar system though. The Oort cloud wins that prize. The Oort Cloud is a belt containing trillions of icy bodies and is up to 2000 times farther from the sun than Eris. In fact, the outer edge of the Oort cloud is where objects are thought to have more gravitational influence from nearby stars than from the sun. Hyperion, one of Saturn's moons, is the largest non-spherical moon in the Solar System. If you think it looks spongy, you're right. It is half as dense as water and would actually float in a bathtub if it was big enough. On the topic of large floating objects, Saturn would float as well. Ceres is the only dwarf planet in the main part of the solar system (closer to the sun than neptune) Ceres is found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and actually consists of 1/3 of the asteroid belts matter. Ceres actually contains more fresh water beneath its surface than all the fresh water on Earth combined. In spite of all these other objects in the Solar System the sun accounts for 99.8% of its total mass
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list is 1.5 years old. I realized that when I saw the "clearest" picture of Pluto. That's FAR from the clearest photo.
All you need to do is google Pluto and you'll see amazingly clear and detailed images of it. -
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Makemake is actually pronounced mackay-mackay.
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There is no ocean in Jupiter. There is a ocean in it's moon
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Well, Technically, A Dwarf Planet IS A Planet
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The dwarf planet Makemake is derived from the Rapa Nui (Easter Island) culture after their god, Makemake who is the creator of humanity and god of fertility. It is pronounced mah'-keh-mak'-keh (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/En-us-Makemake.ogg), not make-make [maik-maik]. The narrator is incorrect.
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03:02 Just look at the shape of HAUMEA.
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Speaking a little too fast to understand and retain.
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if by float you mean the core would sink to the bottom and everything else would dissappear then yes it would float
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cool video
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What was the asteroid belt fact? It wasn't clear
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Top fact almost no one knows: If all the planets in our solar system were stacked side by side, they would all fit in between the Earth and our Moon. With about 80,000 km to spare.
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The red spot on Jupiter is a storm cloud that has never stopped raging.
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did you know we also have a another dwarf planet called PlanetX it's very red and dark
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really 360p
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Thanks for giving me so many facts, I rewrote them in my own words though you helped me a lot
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your wrong in fact it was i think july 9th this year we passed pluto and got a clear image so suck it facts man
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"Plewdah"? Do you mean Pluto?
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now we have clearer pictures of pluto
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