planets & moons
Across
- 3. very reflective, smooth icy moon with cryovolcanoes
- 5. largest object with an aphelion exceeding 1000 AU
- 6. lowest density of any major moon
- 9. first known object to have rings outside the roche limit
- 15. surface area almost equal to texas & has one of the most varied topographies
- 16. only moon with a thicker atmosphere than earth's
- 17. first trans-neptunian object discovered to have rings
- 19. hottest object that could have permanent ice
- 21. most heavily cratered object
- 24. larger object in the largest binary system
- 25. known as the "death star moon" with a large crater
- 27. most volcanic moon
- 28. has 2 trojan/co-orbital moons along with itself, more massive than all smaller moons combined
- 30. object with strongest winds
- 31. second largest plutino
- 32. object with largest impact basin (crater)
Down
- 1. first trans-neptunian object named after a chinese diety
- 2. object with largest storm
- 4. most toxic atmosphere on a terrestrial object
- 5. largest rings on a planet
- 7. object only 4x the size of its only moon
- 8. smaller of the two potato moons, very low albedo
- 10. smallest body with precise measurements confirming hydrostatic equilibrium
- 11. first discovered asteroid belt object
- 12. second brightest kuiper belt object
- 13. biggest moon
- 14. #1 spot for the search for extraterrestrial life
- 18. larger of the two potato moons, will form a ring in 40 million years
- 20. first object discovered with a telescope
- 22. similar mass to earth's hydrosphere, has roughly equal parts ice & non-ice
- 23. has one hemisphere much darker than the other, has third tallest mountain
- 26. closest moon to the sun
- 29. largest object never visited with a spacecraft