M. Hansen Space Crossword
Across
- 4. Buzz _________
- 7. Large proper motion, or sideways motion, on the dome of Earth's sky.
- 8. Studying the light emitted from various galaxies
- 10. A triple star system in the southern constellation of Centaurus
- 12. A regular, repeating path that one object in space takes around another one
- 13. What the Earth is
- 14. The measure of the amount of matter in a body
- 16. The Milkyway ______
- 18. Brightest star in Centaurus; the second nearest star to the sun
- 20. Beautiful daughter of King Cepheus and Queen Cassiope of Joppa in Palestine and wife of Perseus
- 21. Property of a body by virtue of which it opposes any agency that attempts to put it in motion
- 23. an hour and a half
- 24. A group of stars that appears to form a pattern or picture
- 25. A space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977
Down
- 1. The ________ galaxy
- 2. 9.8 m/s/s
- 3. Brightest star in the night sky, with an apparent visual magnitude of −1.46
- 5. It orbits around the Earth, at an average altitude of 248 miles
- 6. A celestial body orbiting another of larger size
- 9. Matter will be torn apart into its smallest subatomic components and eventually be squeezed into the singularity.
- 11. A ball of gas in space
- 13. The North Star
- 15. The bright thing in the sky
- 17. Is A clean alternative to methane, also known as natural gas.
- 19. A bluish-white, class A0 main-sequence star
- 22. A ring of icy bodies just outside of Neptune's orbit
- 24. Is the brightest star in the constellation Carina and the second brightest star in the sky.
- 26. Prithvi, Gaia, Terra, Tellus, The world, The Globe, Sol III, Mother _____