Solar System
Across
- 4. a force of attraction between objects that is due to their masses and that decreases as the distance between the objects increases
- 5. Planet closest to pluto
- 7. the planet closest to the sun
- 8. has magnitude and direction
- 10. A rotating disk of dust and gas that surrounds the core of a developing solar system.
- 12. an oval shape defined by points for which the sum of the distances to two fixed points(foci is a constant;
- 13. an action exerted on a body that tends to change the body's state of rest or motion;
- 16. a stream of high-speed,
- 18. The red planet
- 19. the location within Earth along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs; one of the two central defining points of an ellipse
Down
- 1. the path of a body as it moves around another body due to their mutual gravitational attraction
- 2. the degree of elongation of an elliptical orbit
- 3. a dark area of the photosphere of the sun that is cooler than the surrounding areas and that has a strong magnetic field
- 4. a gas composed of molecules that absorb and radiate infrared radiation
- 6. The big blue planet
- 9. evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures;
- 11. a center line to which parts of a structure or body may be referred
- 14. the dwarf planet
- 15. the motion of the axis of a spinning body, such as the wobble of a spinning top,
- 17. a large cloud of gas and dust in interstellar space; a region in space where stars form