Planet Formation and Exoplanets
Across
- 3. cannot condense in space
- 5. Jovian planet that migrated to inner solar system
- 6. in astronomy, gas to solid
- 7. ___force which pulled together small particles to start forming the first planetesimals
- 8. early era of solar system with many collisions of planetesimals/asteroids/comets
- 9. ____ method: this method of finding a star involves the planet blocking out light going to the Earth
- 11. ___ method: this method of finding a star involves seeing the star move back and forth
- 13. where the frost line is (approximately)
- 15. this part of a planet is densest
- 17. cannot condense in space
- 18. ___ Space Telescope: found thousands of stars via the transit method
- 19. common example of hydrogen compound
- 20. baby planet
Down
- 1. what brought water to earth (plural)
- 2. separating due to density differences
- 4. planet outside our solar system
- 8. cannot condense inside the frost line
- 10. point at which the solar nebula cools enough for ice to form
- 12. dust cloud
- 14. force that pulled large planetesimals together
- 16. densest material in solar nebula