The Planets and Telescopes
Across
- 3. Famous Greek astronomer’s first name
- 4. One of the first peoples that started to use mathematical equations to predict the movement of the stars.
- 6. The year that Herschel found Uranus (add CE to the end).
- 7. Person that mistaken a planet for a comet (full name).
- 10. Creator of a telescope that could magnify things up to 40 times.
- 15. A disturbance of motion
- 16. Farthest known planet to the ancient peoples
- 17. They named the planet Neptune because of this
- 18. One of Uranus’s moons that was discovered by Herschel.
Down
- 1. Time the first telescope was created (add CE to the end).
- 2. How people found Neptune
- 5. Germanic word meaning “the ground”
- 8. One of the first peoples to start studying the sky.
- 9. Goddess of love
- 11. “By using these calculations and a large __________”
- 12. Closest planet to the sun
- 13. Telescope made in 1941 that is still used today.
- 14. God of war