Across
- 3. Kepler's 2nd is the law of ____ ___ (2 words)
- 4. The measure of how much of an oval an object is.
- 7. Half of the major axis
- 9. The major axis is a line that goes across the (narrowest/widest) part of an oval
- 11. The place in an orbit when the satellite is Farthest from what it orbits.
- 13. The place in an orbit when the satellite is Closest to what it orbits.
- 15. The Earth orbits this large object.
- 16. Another term for when a satellite orbits around another object (verb form of the word)
- 17. The minor axis is a line that goes across the (narrowest/widest) part of an oval
- 19. In the middle of the circle, there is one of them.
Down
- 1. The orbital period ________ equals the semi-major axis ______.(This is a formula)
- 2. Kepler's 3rd law is the law of ______ (not periods)
- 5. This force causes Earth to speed up and slow down as it orbits.(2 words)
- 6. In the equation in Kepler's 3rd law, this letter represents the orbital period and this letter represents the semi-major axis.
- 8. Kepler's 1st law describes this aspect of orbits
- 10. Kepler's 1st law is the law of _______
- 12. The area covered when a celestial body orbits an object
- 14. In general, Kepler's laws are laws of planetary ______.
- 18. Two things in an oval
