Space
Across
- 2. the angle between the Earth at one time of year, and the Earth six months later, as measured from a nearby star
- 4. the earth is at the center of the universe, and the planets, the sun and the moon, and the stars circle around it
- 5. the representation of the moon's journey around the Earth
- 9. an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°
- 10. a ball of ice and dust that orbits the Sun
- 13. the time or date (twice each year) at which the sun crosses the celestial equator, when day and night are of approximately equal length
- 14. an eclipse in which the moon appears darkened as it passes into the earth's shadow
- 16. has a progressively smaller part of its visible surface illuminated, so that it appears to decrease in size
- 18. the curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon
- 19. composed mainly of hydrogen and helium, four outermost planets in the solar system
- 20. the time or date (twice each year) at which the sun reaches its maximum or minimum declination, marked by the longest and shortest days
Down
- 1. the moon at any time after the new moon and before the full moon, when the illuminated area is increasing
- 3. has a compact, rocky surface, the four innermost planets in the solar system
- 6. a streak of light in the sky that appears when a meteoroid burns up upon entering Earth's atmosphere
- 7. an eclipse in which the sun is obscured by the moon
- 8. the earth is at the center of the universe, and the planets, the sun and the moon, and the stars circle around it
- 11. an imaginary line about which a body rotates
- 12. orbits the sun, hasn’t cleared orbit, nearly round shape
- 15. small rocky object that orbits the Sun
- 17. orbits a star, has enough mass to be forced into a sphere, clears nearby objects from orbit with its gravity