Solar System Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. Shape of the planets
  2. 5. Path a planet takes around the sun
  3. 8. Smallest planet in the solar system
  4. 12. Scientist who visits space
  5. 14. Hottest Planet
  6. 15. Not considered to be a planet anymore!
  7. 16. Scientist who studies space
Down
  1. 1. Length of time taken up by one orbit of the sun
  2. 2. Happens when the Sun's light is blocked by the Moon
  3. 3. Force that holds the Moon in orbit around the Earth
  4. 6. Gas Giant
  5. 7. Our star
  6. 9. Takes 24 hours on Earth
  7. 10. Famous scientist who came up with theories about gravity and the solar system
  8. 11. Object that orbits a planet
  9. 13. Object that orbits a planet