Astronomy- Shalmali Rao

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Across
  1. 4. a small rocky body orbiting the sun
  2. 6. a year, occurring once every four years, that has 366 days including February 29
  3. 8. a celestial object consisting of ice and dust that leaves a “tail” of gas and dust particles
  4. 11. the distance around a curved geometric figure
  5. 12. a lens or other object that causes refraction
  6. 14. the curved path of an object around a star, planet or moon
  7. 15. the force that attracts a body toward a physical body having mass
Down
  1. 1. a representation or copy of an object that is smaller or larger than the actual object
  2. 2. a meteor that survives its passage through earth’s atmosphere
  3. 3. an instance of revolving
  4. 5. a piece of glass, metal, or other material for reflecting light in a required direction
  5. 7. a closed, symmetric curved shape like an oval that has a constant sum of distances of two fixed points
  6. 9. method of expressing numbers in terms of a decimal number between 1 and 10 multiplied by a power of 10
  7. 10. a half of a sphere
  8. 13. the action of rotating around a center or axis