As of 2009, Jupiter has 63 natural satellites that have been discovered to date. Saturn has the second greatest number of moons, with 61. Most of the Jovian and Saturnian moons are small irregularly-shaped bodies of ice and rock, and many are almost certainly captured asteroids.
The British Ordinary Enthusiasts created a self-supporting line of 131 penny farthing bicycles in Abbey Park, Leicester, UK on 27 July 2003. In accordance with the rules, the line was held for three minutes.
The world’s most popular pen, is Bic’s disposible ball-point pen, the 100 billionth of which was sold in September 2006. Bic Launched the Bic Cristal pen in 1950 and has gone on to sell 57 per second, that is enough pens to fill the Arc de Triomphe 23 times over!
The most circular jumps on a wall are 11 and were achieved by Aung Zaw Oo (USA) on the set of Lo Show dei Record in Rome, Italy on 24 March 2010. The record was part of the Italian TV series “Lo Show dei Record”.
The largest women’s free fall formation consisted of 151 skydivers and was formed at the Jump For The Cause charity event over Perris Valley, California, USA on 30 September 2005.
The largest origami paper crane has a wingspan of 81.94 m (268 ft 9 in) and was created by 800 people of the Peace Piece Project (all Japan) at the Hiroshima Shudo University, Hiroshima, Japan, on 29 August 2009. The claimants first created a piece of paper measuring 100 m x 100 m (328 ft x 328 ft) out of smaller paper pieces. These pieces were attached to one another with tape. The wingspan was measured by a surveyor using triangulation.
Susan Boyle (UK) is the only British female artist to top both the US and UK album charts with two releases, I Dreamed A Dream in 2009 and The Gift in 2010. The former was the biggest-selling new album in the US and UK in 2009 and the latter was named the Top US Album of 2010 by Billboard magazine.
In March 2008 scientists announced they had detected and identified single photons of light bounced off an orbiting satellite some 1,485 km above the Earth. This achievement is a critical step to establishing a space-based quantum communications channel – the holy grail of absolutely secure and uninterceptable digital communications
The highest terminal velocity for a petrol-driven piston-engined motorcycle (Pro Stock) is 318.08 km/h (197.65 mph) by Michael Phillips (USA) at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA on 18 July 2010.
The highest terminal velocity for a petrol-driven, piston-engined car (Pro Stock) is 341.92 km/h (212.46 mph), achieved by Greg Anderson (USA) at Concord, North Carolina USA, on 27 March 2010.