Astronomy
Across
- 2. a body that orbits another of greater mass
- 4. dark areas on the moon
- 6. a small rocky body traveling through space
- 10. a piece of a meteoroid that impacts the Earth
- 12. the only know moon to have its own magnetic field
- 13. latin for moon
- 15. Galilean moon that is densely cratered
- 16. small body of rock, metal and ice
- 18. the largest moon of Saturn
- 20. the moon has lots of these depressions
Down
- 1. a ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune's orbit
- 3. a bright light created by a meteoroid burning up in Earth's atmosphere
- 5. oort cloud
- 6. a natural satellite
- 7. rock fragments fused together from impacts
- 8. a layer of dust and rock that covers lunar surface
- 9. long deep channels in the maria
- 11. one of the Galilean moons with a rock core and liquid water under its icy surface
- 14. fragments of rock located in a band between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
- 17. igneous rock that make up the maria
- 19. volcanically active moon orbiting Jupiter