Across
- 2. a bright object in the night sky made up of bright plasma
- 3. the force that attracts a body towards another body
- 6. the curved path of a celestial object
- 7. the motion of one object around another
- 8. a quantity having both direction and magnitude.
- 10. strength or energy as an attribute of physical action or movement
- 11. a collection of matter that can be considered a singular unit for scientific studies
- 14. the interval of time between successive occurrences of the same state in an oscillatory or cyclic phenomenon, such as a mechanical vibration, an alternating current, a variable star, or an electromagnetic wave.
- 15. the average distance between the earth and the sun
- 16. a celestial body moving around a star
- 17. Oval shape,sum of its distances from two other points (the foci) is constant,
- 18. the force acting on an object moving in a circular path towards the middle of the point the object is moving around
- 19. deviation of a curve or orbital from circularity
- 20. distance from object to the object its orbiting
Down
- 1. each planet's orbit about the Sun is an ellipse
- 4. the squares of the orbital periods of the planets are directly proportional to the cubes of the semi-major axes of their orbits.
- 5. the points on the ellipse of a planets orbit
- 9. the imaginary line joining a planet and the Sun sweeps equal areas of space during equal time intervals as the planet orbits.
- 12. the speed of something in a given direction
- 13. acceleration of a object in a circular path or motion
