Astronomers
Across
- 2. Created the three laws of planetary motion
- 5. Stated that the annual movement of the sun in the sky can be explained by the earth moving around the sun with a tilted axis.
- 7. Created a model that required the planets not only to move in circles around the earth, but also along smaller cycles called epicycles around imaginary points.
- 9. Created a model of a geocentric solar system where the Earth is the center and the rest of the planets and the sun revolve around it.
- 10. Noticed the path of a comet which required it to traverse the orbits of several planets, known as the Comet of 1577
- 12. A sun centered solar system
- 13. Discovered 4 moons around Jupiter, now known as the 4 Galilean moons (Titan, Io, Ganymede, Callisto)
Down
- 1. A measure of how circular an orbit is
- 3. The natural satellite of the Earth
- 4. A earth centered solar system
- 6. The new moon mission that plans to send people back to the moon in 2025
- 8. A celestial body that orbits around a star
- 11. An elliptical, repeating path that an object in space takes around another one