Orbits
Across
- 2. The phase of water that exists near Neptune
- 7. The planet closest to the sun
- 8. Movement of an object in orbit around another object
- 9. Another name for the habitable zone, not too hot and not too cold
- 10. The method that lets scientists find exoplanets by tracking decreases in the light from a star
- 11. The group of planets that are large, gas and far from the sun
- 13. A planet that is orbiting another star
- 14. The sun plus the 8 planets and other small objects orbiting the sun
Down
- 1. The group of planets that are small, dense and close to the sun
- 3. The number that describes the shape of an orbit by how stretched out it is
- 4. the long measurement across an ellipse
- 5. The scientist who wrote the 3 laws of planetary motion
- 6. The two dots inside an elliptical orbit, the sun is located at one
- 12. Spinning of an object on its axis