Thursday, August 21, 2008

Random Facts About the Sun

• The Sun appears to be yellow-gold because we view it through Earth’s atmosphere. The Sun’s actual color is more white than yellow.

• The Sun contains 99.9 percent of all matter in our solar system.

• English astronomer James Jeans determined that if you placed a piece of the Sun’s core the size of the head of a pin on Earth, it would still generate enough heat to kill a person 84 miles away.

• The surface gravity of the Sun is 28 times that of Earth. If you weigh 120 pounds on Earth, you would weigh 3,360 pounds on the Sun.

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