Space exploration vocab
Across
- 1. Small pebble sized object in space
- 7. anything that is outside of Earth
- 10. Spinning motion of an object
- 13. Large glowing sphere of gas held together by its own gravity.
Down
- 2. Orbits the sun but hasn't been able to clear their orbit of debris
- 3. Bowl-shaped hole that has been blasted out of a surface
- 4. A celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit
- 5. axis Imaginary line around which an object rotates or spins
- 6. Path that an object makes when it is traveling around another object
- 8. plane imaginary flat surface on which you could trace out Earth's path around the sun
- 9. Object that orbits a planet
- 11. distance distance between an object and the body it is orbiting
- 12. small rocky object that orbits the Sun, but not pulled into a spherical shape by gravity