Earth

1.      Earth revolves around and receives light and energy from the Sun, whose core is estimated to be 27,000,000° F.  The Sun’s interior could hold 1.3 million Earths.

 

The Sun appears to have been active for 4.6 billion years and may have enough fuel to go on for another five billion years or so. 

 

Earth is about 4.55 billion years old.

 

About 50,000,000 years after Earth was formed, an asteroid and/or another planet about the size of Mars crashed into it, creating the moon.

 

 

3.      Earth is one of nine known planets in our solar system.

 

Earth orbits the sun at 66,000 miles per hour and is spinning at 1,041 miles per hour at the equator.

 

 

3.      The surface of Earth is made up of big slowly moving plates, the center is about 3,959 miles away, and is probably hot in the middle.

 

 

4.      When comparing Earth to the rest of the universe, it is very, very, very small. 

 

So is the Sun, the solar system and the Milky Way.