You may be able to see Meteor showers or shooting stars on these nights (clouds permitting!).

dates to look out for meteors in 2002 are;

June 17-26 best night June 19th

July 15-August 25 moonlight may interfere -best nights July 29th, 31st, Aug 2nd, Aug 12th

October 15-25 best night Oct 21st moonlight may interfere

October 26-Nov 16 best night Nov 3rd

November 15-19 best night 17th moonlight may interfere

Dec 9-14 best night Dec 13th

Dec 17-24 moonlight may interfere -best night Dec 23rd

Jupiter's gravity is estimated to be 2.5 time that of Earth's on its 'surface'.

Try putting a heavy weight onto your back and try moving about - I'm glad I live on Earth.

Martian Snow( better known as Dry Ice) is really solid carbon dioxide.

The Martian Seasons can be tracked by looking at the amount of white solid carbon dioxide at its poles.

Food was a real problem on early space flights.  Astronauts were fed many different concoctions including tubes of 

paste that was really quite unpalatable. 

These days food on the ISS is much better.

The sun is much smaller than you think.  But remember you can only look at it with the help of Solar Viewers.

NEVER look directly  towards the Sun as this can permanently damage your eyes.

Click below to go to some Astronomy /Space web sites that I think you will find interesting.