Astronomy Vick 3

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Across
  1. 3. at which the sun crosses the celestial equator, when day and night are of equal length
  2. 5. an eclipse in which the moon appears darkened as it passes into the earth's shadow.
  3. 10. the path of an object as it revolves
  4. 12. a group of stars making up a pattern
  5. 14. light from one celestial body by the passage of another between it and the observer or between it and its source of illumination.
  6. 16. spinning motion of a planet on its axis
  7. 17. An object that orbits a planet
  8. 18. the fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object, especially the area on the earth or moon experiencing the total phase of an eclipse.
  9. 20. the movement of an object around another object
  10. 23. a tide just after a new or full moon, when there is the greatest difference between high and low water.
  11. 24. an eclipse in which the sun is in front of the moon.
  12. 26. the force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth, or toward any other physical body having mass
Down
  1. 1. The tidal levels and character which would result from gravitational effects
  2. 2. the partially shaded outer region of the shadow cast by an opaque object.
  3. 4. An imaginary line that passes through a planet's center
  4. 6. a particle attracts every other particle in the universe with a force
  5. 7. A ball of hot gas
  6. 8. A streak of light in the sky produced by the burning of a meteoroid in Earth's atmosphere
  7. 9. a tide just after the first or third quarters of the moon when there is the least difference between high and low water.
  8. 11. an object that orbits a star
  9. 13. A loose collection of ice and dust that orbits the sun
  10. 15. a large, bowl-shaped cavity in the ground or on the surface of a planet or the moon
  11. 19. a chart or series of pages showing the days, weeks, and months of a particular year, or giving particular seasonal information.
  12. 21. arge, dark, basaltic plains on Earth's Moon, formed by ancient volcanic eruptions
  13. 22. a meteor that survives its passage through the earth's atmosphere such that part of it strikes the ground
  14. 25. when the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon, marked by the longest and shortest days.