Space Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Relating to the Moon
  2. 7. a person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft
  3. 10. A large object such as Jupiter or Earth that orbits a star
  4. 11. The path of an object around a particular point in space
  5. 12. The envelope of gasses surrounding the earth or another planet
Down
  1. 1. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  2. 3. An object’s orbital motion around another object (Earth revolves around the sun)
  3. 4. Relating to the Sun
  4. 5. An object’s spinning motion around its own axis (Earth spins on its axis)
  5. 6. All of space and time and their contents (planet, stars, galaxies, matter, energy)
  6. 8. The force of attraction that pulls together all matter. The more matter something has, the greater the force of its gravity.
  7. 9. A HUGE collection of gas, dust, billions of stars, and their solar systems.