Matching Pairs Space exploration glossaryOnline version Use this game to review the words we've been practising in Science class. by Neus Vinyallonga 1 Landing 2 Dwarf planet 3 Comet 4 Astronomy 5 Shooting star 6 Planet 7 Natural satellite 8 Bright 9 Rocket 10 Telescope 11 Spacecraft 12 Gravity 13 Thesis 14 Star 15 Asteroid Adjective related to the amount of light an object has. Verb referred to an airplane or a spacecraft arriving on the ground. Device or tool for making objects that are far away look closer and larger. Used to investigate the outter space. A very small planet. Document similar to a book that groups all the important information about some investigation. Specially related to college (university). A vehicle used to travel in space (synonym of spaceship) Science that studies all the celestial bodies in space. A piece of rock or ice from space that produces a bright light as it travels through the Earth's atmosphere. An extremely large, round mass of rock, such as Earth, or of gas, such as Jupiter, that moves in a circular path around the Sun or another star: Piece of ice that circles the Sun and every certain years can be seen from Earth. A very large ball of gas in space that is usually seen from the Earth as a point of light in the sky at night. Examples: Sun, Polaris and Alfa Centaury. Used to send spacecrafts or artificial satellites to the space. A rock that circles the Sun. Example: Kuiper's belt. a natural object moving around a planet in the space. Example: Moon, Europe, Callisto, Invisible force that attracts us to the center of the Earth.