Space
Across
- 1. a comet that is seen every ~76-80 years
- 4. a satellite that orbits Earth every 24 hours
- 5. comets were used in lecture to describe which of kepler's laws
- 8. the primary constituent of comets
- 9. a physics teacher
- 10. created three laws of planetary motions
- 13. a satellite that can be seen in the same location in the sky at all times
- 14. the structure of Earth's core
- 18. unable to escape from black holes
- 19. when a star in the sky has brightness that varies over time
- 20. created three laws of motion
- 21. all planetary orbits form this shape
Down
- 2. an astronomical object that Bruce Willis blew up in 1998
- 3. the director of 2001:A Space Odyssey
- 6. determined the "G" constant
- 7. the period of earth's revolution around the sun
- 11. the surface of a black hole
- 12. the period of earth's rotation upon its axis
- 15. name of locations in a two body orbit of relative gravitational stability
- 16. an object that orbits the Earth at an altitude of 400km
- 17. a comet with a very long period, last seen in 1997-1998
- 22. the radius of a black hole