Other Solar System Bodies
Across
- 2. Earth ______ on its own axis (1 day)
- 3. The big dipper is a ______ inside of the constellation called Ursa Major
- 5. These do not have enough mass/gravity to clear their orbits
- 7. People usually call these "shooting stars"
- 8. Believed earth was a sphere due to curved edges observed during a lunar eclipse
- 9. They travel in a long eliptical orbit around the sun which can change through the gravitational attraction between planets
Down
- 1. This type of planets are composed of rocky materials
- 4. A chunk of rock from space that hits the surface of earth
- 6. Are small bodies that are believed to be leftover romains from the formation of the solar system
- 7. Astronomers call these "satellites"