PHY 115: Nebular Theory Crossword Name:
Across
- 2. Electrostatic followed by gravity lead to microscopic particles aggregating into much larger objects.
- 5. A once uniform object becomes layered by density
- 8. Small, normally misshapen object, composed largely of metals or rocks and metals
- 10. A measure of the resistance of an object to being accelerated
Down
- 1. Imaginary boundary inside of which it was too hot to condense ices (two words)
- 3. Small, normally misshapen object, composed largely of ices, left over after accretion
- 4. Formation of solid particles out of the nebula
- 5. ________ planets did not clear the space around them
- 6. We now think that the sun, planets, moons, asteroids and comets all formed from a single huge _________ of gas and dust.
- 7. How much space some object takes up
- 9. Mass divided by volume