Fun Facts About The Earth

1. 1.3 million earths can fit inside of the sun, and average sized star.

2. It take eight minutes and twenty seconds for light to travel from the sun to the earth.

3. The are 7,500,000,000,000,000,000 grains of sand on earth.

4. The earth's core is as hot as the sun.

5. Lightning strikes earth 100 times per second or 8.6 billion times a day.

6. Earth is the only place in our solar system where water could be present in three different states which are solid liquid and vapor.

7. Antarica is the coldest, windiest, highest and driest continent on earth.

8. Between 100 and 300 tons of cosmic dust enter the earth's atmosphere every day.

9. There are about 500,000 detected earthquakes each year. 100,000 of them can be felt and 100 of them cause damage.

10. If the sun was the size of a beach ball, then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball, and the earth would be the size of a pea.