Space Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. The size of Earth's Moon
  2. 5. When our view of one object in the sky is blocked by either another object or the Earth's shadow.
  3. 7. the force of attraction by which terrestrial bodies tend to fall toward the center of the earth.
  4. 9. Also called minor planet. Astronomy. any of the thousands of small bodies of from 480 miles (775 km) to less than one mile (1.6 km) in diameter that revolve about the sun in orbits lying mostly between those of Mars and Jupiter.
  5. 10. The smallest particle of any element.
  6. 13. they are on Uranus and Saturn and many more
  7. 14. any of various groups of stars to which definite names have been given, as Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Bootees, Cancer, Orion.
  8. 18. the movement or path of the earth or a heavenly body turning on its axis.
  9. 19. a person engaged in or trained for space flight.
  10. 22. The biggest planet
  11. 23. celestial body moving about the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and gas that may form a tail that streams away from the sun.
  12. 25. a celestial body four times the size of Earth.
  13. 27. a space capsule or vehicle put into orbit by such devices.
  14. 28. Well known for it's rings
Down
  1. 1. The path the Sun, Moon, and planets all follow in the sky.
  2. 2. to shine or glow.
  3. 4. was a planet but now not
  4. 6. a natural body that revolves around a planet; a moon.
  5. 8. an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form (reflecting telescope) has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed.
  6. 11. Has two moons
  7. 12. The atmosphere is made up mainly of carbon dioxide.
  8. 15. The area around a star where it is just the right temperature for life to exist.
  9. 16. the light in the night
  10. 17. of or pertaining to the sun
  11. 20. is actually a star
  12. 21. Some people call them shooting stars
  13. 24. The planet we live on
  14. 26. Has oceans of diamonds