Space Crossword

1. huge, glowing balls of gases.
8. large natural objects that orbit, or travel around, stars.
9. a repeating path that one object in space takes around another.
11. space rocks and chunks of space metal that land on Earth
13. everything that exists—all matter and all energy—throughout space and time.
14. a group of stars in the night sky that make up a recognizable picture or pattern.
16. A push or pull on an object when it interacts with another.
17. any piece of comet, meteoroid, or asteroid that travels into Earth's atmosphere.
19. more or less everything outside the Earth's Atmosphere.
20. small, rocky bodies that orbit, or travel around, the sun.

2. a jacket of gases that surrounds our planet.
3. A huge collection of gas, dust and billions of stars and their solar systems held together by gravity.
4. large objects made of dust and ice that orbit the Sun.
5. Those who study planets, the moon and the stars
6. an object that moves around a larger object.
7. happens when one object in space, like a planet or moon, passes through the shadow of another object in space.
10. an instrument that allows people to see distant objects.
12. a large natural object that orbits, or travels around, Earth.
15. a special kind of scientist that takes a spaceship to outer space to study things like asteroids, the earth's atmosphere and the moon.
18. The force that pulls objects towards the ground.