ASTRO crossword
Across
- 4. any planet visible in the evening sky
- 7. any planet visible in the sky shortly before sunrise
- 9. December 22, the sun is farthest south
- 10. the turning of a body about an axis through its center
- 12. the apparent path of the sun around the sky
- 13. January 4, earth's closest point to the sun
- 15. the motion of a body around a point located outside the body
Down
- 1. September 22, the place where it crosses the celestial equator moving southward
- 2. June 22, the sun is farthest north
- 3. occur at every new and full moon, not just in spring
- 5. an object's orbital period relative to the sun
- 6. March 21, the place where the sun crosses the celestial equator moving northward
- 8. the 27.322 days it takes the moon to orbit eastward around the Earth
- 11. July 4, earth farthest point from the sun
- 14. occur at 1st and 3rd qtr moon, when the moon and sun pull at right angles to each other