Across
- 3. The standard unit of time used in Kepler's third law
- 6. Kepler's second law is also known as the law of blank areas
- 7. The first name of Brahe whose precise data Kepler used to build his laws
- 10. The star at the center of our solar system that planets orbit
- 11. The A in AU the unit of distance used in Kepler's third law
- 14. The point in a planet's orbit where it is closest to the Sun
- 15. One of the two points used to define an ellipse where the Sun sits
Down
- 1. The German astronomer who formulated the three laws of planetary motion
- 2. The curved path of a celestial object around a star or planet
- 4. The shape of a planet's orbit around the Sun
- 5. The point in a planet's orbit where it is farthest from the Sun
- 8. The radius along the longest axis of an ellipse
- 9. The invisible force that Isaac Newton used to explain why Kepler's laws work
- 12. Kepler's second law states that a planet moves at varying blanks in its orbit
- 13. The time it takes for a planet to complete one full orbit around the Sun
