Solar System

2. are smaller objects that orbit the Sun- made primarily of frozen ammonia, methane or water
6. A greek that lived from 384 BCE to 322BCE who thought the Earth was the center of the universe and that the sun, moon, planets, all fixed stars revolved around it
7. a small body of orbiting the Sun that is composed primarily of rock or metal.
10. the theory that states that states the Earth is the center of the solar system
11. was from Italy and lived 1564-1642 and supported Copernicus and believed that the sun is the center of the solar system- he was placed on house arrest and lost his job.

1. Man from Poland who lived 1473-1543 and he believed that every planet including the Earth moved around the sun
3. the theory that states that the sun is the center of our solar system
4. belt, located between Mars and Jupiter
5. a meteor that makes it through our atmosphere and hits the surface of the earth
8. a German astronomer that lived from 1571-1630 who found that planets travelled in elliptical orbits.
9. a bright streak of light in the sky aka as a shooting star
12. the path one object takes around another object in space