Investigation 5: Craters & Investigation 6: Beyond the Moon
Across
- 4. sticking together
- 5. large, icy, rare objects from the outer reaches of the solar system
- 7. radius the average distance between an object and the object it is orbiting
- 11. a crater that has central peaks and ejecta thrown out in long rays
- 12. an enormous collection of tens of millions to hundreds of billions of stars, interstellar gas, and dust
- 14. the crash between one object and another
- 15. a small, bowl-shaped crater that has fairly uniform blanket of ejecta distributed around the rim
- 17. impact sites
- 19. lunar soil
Down
- 1. a cloud of gas and dust in space between stars
- 2. a crater from a large impact that filled with magma from beneath the surface
- 3. the average distance between Earth and the Sun, about 150 million km
- 6. the distance light travels in one year, about 9.5 trillion km
- 8. a region of space occupied by a system of objects orbiting a star
- 9. a small-or medium-sized piece of rock or metal from space
- 10. the sum total of all things that can be observed or detected
- 13. large, rocky or metallic objects from within the solar system
- 16. a force of attraction between masses
- 18. the material displaced from the land when a crater is formed