Sadie's Space Crossword
Across
- 3. the planet we live on
- 6. the universe seen as a well-ordered whole.
- 7. a small rocky body orbiting the sun
- 10. a fixed luminous point in the night sky which is a large, remote incandescent body like the sun.
- 12. the time or date, twice each year when the sun crosses the celestial equator, from which day and night are almost equal
- 13. a celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star.
- 15. a region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter can escape.
- 17. measure of the brightness of a star or other celestial body
- 19. the force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth, or toward any other physical body having mass.
- 22. a group of stars forming a recognizable pattern .
Down
- 1. a cloud of gas and dust in outer space, visible in the night sky either as an indistinct bright
- 2. a small body of matter from outer space that enters the earth's atmosphere and appearing as a streak of light.
- 4. designed to travel through space or to launch a spacecraft.
- 5. icy, small Solar System body heats when passes the sun. This produces a visible atmosphere and sometimes also a tail.
- 8. an obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another
- 9. an instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer
- 10. the star which the earth orbits
- 11. the branch of science which deals with space
- 14. the curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon.
- 16. determined by, or resembling the moon.
- 18. all existing matter and space considered as a whole
- 20. the natural satellite of the earth, visible at night
- 21. the amount of matter in an object