astronomy ashleigh meadors
Across
- 2. an imaginary line that passes through a planets center
- 3. an object the orbits a star
- 8. attracts all objects toward each other
- 9. the different shapes of the moon you see from the earth
- 12. one year
- 13. when the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator
- 15. the amount of matter in an object
Down
- 1. the measure of the force of gravity on an object
- 4. when neither hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the sun
- 5. a ball of hot gas, primarily hydrogen and helium then undergoes nuclear fusion
- 6. a system of organizing time
- 7. A streak of light the sky produced by the burning of a meteoroid in earths atmosphere
- 10. an object that orbits a planet
- 11. one day
- 14. a loose collection of ice and dust that orbits the sun, typically in along narrow orbit.