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Ten Interesting Facts About Asteroids You Can Tell Your Friends

Have you ever wondered where most asteroids come from of what they are made from? If you have these ten facts about asteroids should answer most the questions you have about them as well as giving you some useless facts to tell friends and family… theverybesttop10.com

The Ten Largest Bodies in Our Own Solar System by Radius

From meteors to stars, planets to moons. This list includes the ten biggest bodies within our own solar system and some are considerably bigger than others. While the good news is our own Earth makes the list, there really isn’t much in it… theverybesttop10.com

The Top 10 Largest Planetary Moons in Our Solar System

While most of us can name a few moons located within our own solar system not many people can name ten of them. Not only that, but who would be able to put them in order? Well, I couldn’t, but after making this post I can… theverybesttop10.com

The Top 10 Closest Stars to Earth (Not Including the Sun)

Would you be able to name any of the ten closest stars to earth (not including our own sun)? If you can you might still find this list interesting. While most of these starts are light years away in terms of universe distance they are practically on our doorstep… theverybesttop10.com

The Top 10 Brightest Stars as Seen From Earth

These 10 bright lights are the ten brightest stars as seen from Earth and apart from the number one and most obvious one, the rest might be a surprise to you and to many of us would have never heard of the other 9 before. There is no need to shine a light on this lot, they provide their own… …

The Top 10 Largest Exceptional Asteroids Located Within Our Solar System

While tracking an ‘exceptional’ asteroid is pretty easy these days making a guess on their size is not due to their irregular shapes and motion. So while this list might be well off the mark, its still a pretty good estimate on the largest, esspecialy when it comes to geometric mean… theverybesttop10.com

The First Ten People to Have Gone Into Space

Here is an interesting fact for you. At the time of writing, this only 536 have ever been into space! That is not a lot at all, but someone had to start it off and these ten people you are about to read about where the very first people to have gone into space… theverybesttop10.com

The First Ten People to Become Moonwalkers and Their EVA

(*EVA = Extravehicular activity – ie. time spent out of the lunar module on the Moon’s surface) Most of us can probably name a few people on this list without looking at it, but can you can the first ten people to have walked on the moon’s surface? Probably not and even fewer people will know how much time they …

Ten of the Worlds First Women in Space

I bet you can name at least one of the first ten people in space. Well, Yuri Gagarin isn’t on this list because this list only features the worlds first ten women to ever go into space. While some of them only just reached the outer edges their names will still go down in history… theverybesttop10.com

Ten Top 10 Largest Telescopes in the Entire World

While most newly build telescopes are smaller ones that are used in universities and research stations, there are a few that get built that are destined for other, far great things. These are the super telescopes and they are bigger than you could possibly imagine… theverybesttop10.com

The Top 10 Largest Known Asteroids in the Solar System

Some are so big they are bigger than some countries and some could fit in a large village, but the really good news is none of these asteroids are heading to earth. Which it probably a good thing looking at how big some of them are… theverybesttop10.com

Top 10 Mohs Scale Degrees of Hardness

The Mohs scale of mineral hardness was once upon a time little more than a wooden box. This wooden box had ten compartments and inside each one contained a numbered mineral specimen. Then each mineral was tested by seeing which minerals can visibly scratch the others. Despite its lack of precision, the Mohs scale is still highly relevant… theverybesttop10.com

The Top 10 Heaviest Elements in the Entire Known Universe

This base list of ten elements are the “heaviest” by its density of each cubic cm. However, please note that density is not mass, it just describes how closely packed together the mass is. Now we understand that, let’s take a look at the heaviest elements in the entire known universe… (The main image is a bismuth crystal that didn’t …

Top 10 Most Common and Abundant Elements in the Earth’s Crust

While most of us know that the most abundant minerals in the earth’s crust are the silicates, at least a few on this list might well surprise you. This is not a list going by weight as it would be a different order, this list goes by pure percentage… theverybesttop10.com

Top 10 Highest and Lowest Layers of Clouds

From the ground, it looks like all clouds are roughly the same height. But there are vast differences that amount to thousands of ft. But what are the highest and what are the lowest? This post has all the info you need to become a could expert… theverybesttop10.com

The Top 10 Principal Components of the Air We Breath

If you think the air we breathe these days is just nitrogen & oxygen you might find this list of ten things we breathe in every day as a bit of a shock! From water vapour to all sorts of gases and even ammonia! This list doesn’t name all of the things we breathe in, it just names the most …