Interesting Facts That You Know

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Fact: There's nothing stupider than a creatard.

Fact, there is. Drich.

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Here's a cool fact: The Sun contains 99.85% of all the matter in our solar system.

Cool fact, the planets contain ~80% of the angular momentum in our solar system.

Another cool fact, technically, the moon does not actually orbit the earth in the sense that gravity of earth dominates the motion of the moon. The gravitational pull of the sun on the moon actually greatly exceed those of the earth, despite the disparity in distance. So the moon actually orbits the sun, while experiencing significant gravitational perturbation by the nearby earth. So a good case can be made that earth and moon are a pair of double planets, not planet and satellite. But current arbitrary definition of planet and satellite depends on the physical size of each object in relation to position of the center of gravity of the system rather than the dominant source of gravitational force effecting the orbital motion. In this case the moon is still considered a satellite of the earth.

A third cool fact. The moon is the only significant satellite in the solar system that is being more strongly pulled by the gravity of the sun than by the gravity of its parent planet. All other significant moons in the solar system really do orbit their parent planets, and are only gravitationally perturbed by the sun.