Across
- 3. elevated areas, lighter spots on moon
- 4. Inner planets are considered ________ (rocky surface)
- 5. Robot that collects samples from other planets
- 8. Aristotle supported which model of the solar system?
- 11. the distance between two foci
- 12. the force that draws objects toward its center
- 13. moon sized objects, formed during Nebular Theory
- 14. __________ Space Station
- 15. the widest point of an ellipse
- 17. cloud of dust and gas
- 18. One foci is the sun the other is _________ space
- 20. Planetesimals are formed by ____________ of dust
- 21. phase moon is in during a solar eclipse
- 24. When the eccentricity is closer to 0 the shape is more _______.
- 25. spins around a central object
- 28. influences the pull of gravity
Down
- 1. the shape of an orbit
- 2. The theory of how the solar system was formed
- 5. spins around a central axis
- 6. the shape of the ellipse
- 7. number of high and low tides
- 9. Outer planets are considered ___________ (gas giants)
- 10. an object that orbits around a bigger object
- 16. the correct model of the solar system
- 19. natural satellite of Earth
- 22. asteroid sized objects, formed during Nebular Theory
- 23. layers of gases that surrounds a planet
- 26. during a lunar eclipse, the moon is in ________'s shadow
- 27. the planet with the weakest gravitational pull from the sun