Solar System

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Across
  1. 2. in 1600's Discovered that planets' orbits are ellipses and not circles
  2. 5. a spinning motion
  3. 7. a huge collection of gas, dust, and stars held together by gravity
  4. 9. a nearly spherical object that orbits the Sun, but shares its orbital path with other objects of similar size
  5. 10. the line on which an object rotates
  6. 11. an occurrence during which the Moon moves into the Earth's Shadow
  7. 12. an occurrence during which the Moon's shadow appears on Earth's surface
Down
  1. 1. the path an object follows as it moves around another object
  2. 3. day when Earth's rotation axis is leaning along Earth's orbit, neither toward nor away from the Sun
  3. 4. in 1500's proposed that Earth orbits the Sun as a Heliocentric model
  4. 6. a day when Earth's Rotation axis is the most toward or away from the Sun
  5. 7. the attractive force between all objects having mass
  6. 8. the motion of one object around another