The Solar System: Mr. H

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Across
  1. 4. planet – a planet having a rocky surface like Earth’s.
  2. 8. – a star and the objects that orbit it.
  3. 11. – the average distance from an orbiting object to the object it is orbiting around.
  4. 13. – the degree by which the shape of an orbit differs from a circle.
  5. 14. – a distance unit equal to the average Earth-Sun distance.
  6. 16. – three laws that describe the orbits of planets and other orbiting bodies.
Down
  1. 1. – an object that is orbiting a star and is large enough to be rounded by its own gravity but not large enough to have cleared its neighborhood of other objects.
  2. 2. - the largest of all the planets and considered a Gas Giant.
  3. 3. – the amount of time it takes for an object to complete one full orbit.
  4. 5. – a large planet composed mainly of gas.
  5. 6. – an object orbiting a star that is round, not itself a star, and large enough to have cleared small objects from the area around itself.
  6. 7. - the force that pulls things towards the center of a planet or entity.
  7. 9. – the path of one body around another body in space, such as the path of Earth around the Sun.
  8. 10. - an object that moves around another object: the moon is one for us on planet earth
  9. 12. - no longer considered a planet in our Solar System.
  10. 15. - known as the "red planet."