Day by day we live our lives, marked by the rotation of our planet giving us our beautiful sunrises and sunsets. But have you ever wondered about the planet we live on, the Earth? Have you ever wondered what it’s made of? Or how much it weighs? Maybe you’ve wondered why have a leap year? Or maybe you’ve never really given it a passing thought. For all of you wanderers, or all of you who just want to know something new, here’s 10 interesting facts about our brilliant planet. Enjoy readers.
1.The planet Earth weighs approximately 5,974,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms (nearly 6 Septillion kg), that’s roughly the same amount of weight as 54,807,339,449,541,284,403 (approx 55 Quintilian) Blue Whales – the heaviest creature on the Earth itself!
2.Of the 70% of water covering the Earth only 3% of it is fresh, the other 97% of it is salted.
3.
Earth is the only planet in our solar system to have water in all three of its forms (Liquid, Solid & Gas).
4.The Queen of the U.K. is the legal owner of one sixth of the Earth’s land surface!
5.Although life (as we know it) has only existed on Earth for 150 – 200 million years, the Earth itself is almost 5 billion years old!
6.The Earth is actually not round in shape – it is geoid. This is because the rounded shape has a slight bulge towards the equator which is caused by the Earth’s rotation.
7.
The Earth is the only place in our solar system where a Solar Eclipse can happen.
8.Due to the amount of water covering the Earth, it would be one of the brightest planets to look upon from a distance due to the way in which the water would reflect the Sun’s rays.
9.
Contrary to popular belief it does not take the Earth 24 hours to complete a single rotation, it actually takes it 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds to complete a rotation and astronomers call this a sidereal day.
10.
If you drilled a tunnel straight through the Earth and jumped in, then it would take you about 42 minutes to get to the other side!
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