Across
- 6. A scientist who studies space
- 8. A vehicle designed to travel in space
- 12. The movement of one object around another
- 14. The layer of gases around a planet
- 15. The act of traveling to learn about space
- 16. A huge system of stars, gas, and dust
- 17. The force that pulls objects toward each other
- 19. A rocky object that orbits the sun
- 20. An object that orbits a planet
Down
- 1. A group of stars forming a pattern
- 2. A large cloud of gas and dust in space
- 3. A meteor that reaches Earth’s surface
- 4. A small planet that orbits the sun
- 5. A space rock that burns in Earth’s atmosphere
- 7. A measure of how hot or cold something is
- 9. The galaxy that contains our solar system
- 10. All of space and everything in it
- 11. The amount of matter in an object
- 13. The spinning of an object on its axis
- 18. An imaginary line an object spins around
