OUTER SPACE CROSSWORD

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Across
  1. 5. Gravitationally curved path of an object around a point in space.
  2. 6. Person trained to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.
  3. 8. Technical instrument used to see distant objects as stars.
  4. 9. The distance traveled by light in a year.
  5. 11. HORIZONS Interplanetary space probe that was launched to study Pluto, its moons and the Kuiper belt.
  6. 14. A medium-sized rocky object orbiting the Sun
  7. 15. Gravitationally bound system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas and dust, and dark .matter
Down
  1. 1. Telescope named after the astronomer Edwin Hubble.
  2. 2. The natural attraction between physical bodies.
  3. 3. A body in orbit around the Sun large enough to have achieved hydrostatic equilibrium and to have cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.
  4. 4. A bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of ameteoroid.
  5. 7. A small body that circles the Sun with a highly elliptical orbit.
  6. 10. GALILEI The first person to use a telescope to study the stars.
  7. 12. An object in orbit around a planet.
  8. 13. A hot ball of glowing gas