Celestial Profiles 1

2. The titan of the Earth
4. These planets are large gas-filled planets further from the Sun
5. A meteor that has not hit the planet after entering the atmosphere
6. An object in the sky that takes months to sweep through the solar system
8. Descartes' proposal for the ___ hypothesis calls on common, gradual processes to produce the Sun and the planets
10. Commonly called "shooting stars", are small bits of rock and metal falling into Earth's atmosphere
14. A collection of roughly a thousand small, dark, icy bodies orbiting the outer fringes of the solar system beyond Neptune
15. Small rocky worlds which orbit the Sun in a belt between Mars and Jupiter
17. Buffon's proposed hypothesis that calls on unlikely, sudden events to produce the solar system
19. The titan of love
20. Destroys the universe to allow it to be started anew in the Hindu religion

1. The titan of the underworld
3. Preserves the world and human beings in the Hindu religion
7. These planets are small, rocky planets close to the Sun
9. This hypothesis was proposed by Laplace by combining Descartes' vortex theory and Newton's gravity
11. A meteor that has hit the Earth's surface
12. Rene ___, a French philosopher and mathematician who proposed the first physical theory for Earth's origin
13. The creator of the universe in the Hindu religion
16. This mass is equivalent to the mass of the sun, useful for shorthand
18. In the beginning there was only ____ according to Greek Mythology