Month In Facts: November
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World 1st
The familiar Robonaut 2, built by NASA, will become the first human-like robot to be sent into space. It should arrive on the ISS in early 2011 following a delay to its scheduled November launch.
800 trillion
Astronomers discovered a super galaxy 7 billion years from Earth which contains about 800 trillion suns and hundreds of galaxies. By comparison, our galaxy contains 100 million stars.
900,000
The number of trees that could be planted per day using old military planes, an idea developed by US manufacturer Lockheed Martin Aerospace.
10,000 years
Observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope calculated the movement of stars in the globular cluster Omega Centauri over the next 10,000 years.
200
This is the number of 3D HD cameras that Japan would have used to beam holographic football matches around the world if it had won its bid to host the 2022 World Cup.
15 minutes
Four Harvard students created a football which, when played with for 15 minutes, could power a lamp for three hours.
