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Across
- 4. the outermost shell of a terrestrial planet
- 6. measures distance east or west of the prime meridian
- 7. refers the object's orbital motion around another object
- 11. marks the official start of astronomical summer and the longest day of the year
- 12. a layer inside a planetary body bounded below by a core and above by a crust
- 14. Projection of Earth's equator into space divides celestial sphere into hemispheres
Down
- 1. located at the direct center of the Earth below the outer core
- 2. the point at which the path of the sun in the sky is farthest south
- 3. two moments when the Sun is above the Equator, equal day-night.orbit repeating path that one object in space takes around another one
- 5. The time when the sun crosses equator, equal day and night.
- 7. an object's spinning motion about its own axis
- 8. liquid layer of the Earth's core, located between the inner core and the mantle
- 9. any of several slow changes in an astronomical body's rotational or orbital parameters
- 10. measures the distance north or south of the equator
- 13. the angle between an object's rotational axis and its orbital axis