Earth, Moon and Stars Vocabulary Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. a streak of light produced when a small piece of rock or ice burns up as it enters Earth’s atmosphere
  2. 3. a body that orbits a planet
  3. 6. a pattern or group of stars that people imagine represents a figure, animal, or object
  4. 9. a cold mixture of dust and ice that develops a long trail of light as it approaches the sun
  5. 10. a small piece of rock or ice that burns up entering Earth’s atmosphere
  6. 11. the narrow band in the sky through which planets appear to move
  7. 12. a sun-centered model in which Earth and the other planets revolve around the sun
  8. 13. a giant ball of superheated gas, or plasma, composed of hydrogen and helium
  9. 14. Earth’s orbit around the sun
  10. 15. an oval shape that describes the orbit of planets around the sun
Down
  1. 1. visible motion of objects in the sky that may differ from their actual motion
  2. 4. the study of space
  3. 5. an object that orbits the sun, is large enough to have become rounded by its own gravity, and has cleared the area of its orbit of any debris
  4. 7. an Earth-centered model with planets and stars circling Earth
  5. 8. small circles planets made as they moved along orbital paths in Ptolemy’s model