The Planets and Telescopes

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Across
  1. 3. Famous Greek astronomer’s first name
  2. 4. One of the first peoples that started to use mathematical equations to predict the movement of the stars.
  3. 6. The year that Herschel found Uranus (add CE to the end).
  4. 7. Person that mistaken a planet for a comet (full name).
  5. 10. Creator of a telescope that could magnify things up to 40 times.
  6. 15. A disturbance of motion
  7. 16. Farthest known planet to the ancient peoples
  8. 17. They named the planet Neptune because of this
  9. 18. One of Uranus’s moons that was discovered by Herschel.
Down
  1. 1. Time the first telescope was created (add CE to the end).
  2. 2. How people found Neptune
  3. 5. Germanic word meaning “the ground”
  4. 8. One of the first peoples to start studying the sky.
  5. 9. Goddess of love
  6. 11. “By using these calculations and a large __________”
  7. 12. Closest planet to the sun
  8. 13. Telescope made in 1941 that is still used today.
  9. 14. God of war