Our Place in Space

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Across
  1. 2. the universal force of attraction acting between all matter and exists between all bodies
  2. 3. natural satellite of planets
  3. 8. a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, including light and other electromagnetic waves, has enough energy to escape it.
  4. 10. dwarf planet
  5. 11. Jedi master who trained Luke Skywalker
  6. 12. icy, small solar system body that warms and begins to release gases when passing close to the sun
  7. 13. small rocky metallic body in space (smaller than asteroids)
  8. 14. system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter bound together by gravity.
  9. 15. Largest planet in our solar system
  10. 17. second planet from the sun
  11. 19. an object that revolves in orbit around another celestial body
Down
  1. 1. leading accepted scientific theory for how the universe began from an infinitely hot and dense single point that inflated and stretched to the current expanding universe
  2. 4. interstellar clouds of gas and dust, formed from the remnants of dying stars and where new starts are born
  3. 5. first person in space
  4. 6. Third planet from the sun
  5. 7. when meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere and burn up, creating 'shooting stars'
  6. 9. rocky, airless small planet like remnants left over from the early formation of our solar system
  7. 13. when a meteoroid survives the trip through the earth's atmosphere and lands on the earth
  8. 16. planet that spins in different direction to other planets in our solar system
  9. 18. planet with rings around it