Lleyton's Space Find a Word

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. The star our planet orbits (3)
  2. 5. A giant planet that is surrounded by three planar concentric rings of ice particles (6)
  3. 8. Force that pulls objects toward the Earth (7)
  4. 9. United States astronaut (13)
  5. 11. A giant planet with a ring of ice particles (7)
  6. 14. The largest planet and the 5th from the sun (7)
  7. 15. The month following February and preceding April (plural) (4)

Down

  1. 1. Any vehicle self-propelled by a ___ engine (6)
  2. 2. A manned artificial satellite in a fixed orbit designed for scientific research (12)
  3. 3. The smallest planet and the nearest to the sun (7)
  4. 4. A person trained to travel in a spacecraft (9)
  5. 6. A magnifier of images of distant objects (9)
  6. 7. Greek god of light (6)
  7. 10. The second nearest planet to the sun (5)
  8. 12. A large asteroid that was once thought to be the farthest known planet from the sun (5)
  9. 13. A giant planet with a ring of ice particles (6)