Astronomy Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. Events Linked to global climate changes and mass extinctions
  2. 4. Large ball of gas held together by gravity
  3. 6. A body that orbits a planet or an asteroid
  4. 9. Crater Depressions in Earth's crust created by meteorites
  5. 10. Solid object composed of water or methane mixed with rock and metal
  6. 13. Planets Planets with large diameters and low densities composed of gas
  7. 16. Attractive force between two objects in the universe
  8. 19. Object Any object above the Earth's atmosphere
  9. 21. Bang The universe may have began with this event
  10. 22. Shift Observer and object moving apart causing electromagnetic waves to spread out
  11. 23. Shape of the Earth's orbit around the sun
  12. 24. Measures how bright stars would be at the same distance
  13. 25. Collection of billions of stars, gas, and dust
Down
  1. 1. Planets spin on an imaginary axis in motion
  2. 2. Concept that an object at rest will tend to remain at rest
  3. 5. A planet's path around the sun
  4. 7. Effect, Shifting of wavelengths
  5. 8. Way Spiral shaped galaxy our solar system belongs to
  6. 11. Planets, Planets close to the sun that are mostly solid
  7. 12. Two fixed points on an ellipse
  8. 14. Solid, irregular shaped rocky or metallic body that orbits the sun
  9. 15. System Sun and all the objects that orbit the sun
  10. 17. Fusion, Combining small nuclei to make large nuclei, producing energy
  11. 18. Shift Observer and object moving together causing electromagnetic waves to group closer together.
  12. 20. The degree of flatness or ovalness