Across
- 3. A celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star.
- 5. A type of elementary particle from which protons and neutrons are formed. One of the most basic forms of matter.
- 9. The amount of time it takes for the Earth to spin once on its axis.
- 10. A small rocky body orbiting the sun. Are classified as minor planets.
- 11. An event in which one celestial body obscures the passage of light between another and the observer.
- 14. A small, frozen mass of dust and gas orbiting the sun. It spews into a giant ball of dust and gases larger than most planets if it orbits too close to the sun.
- 15. The force which attracts a body towards the center of an object's mass.
- 16. A large star around which the solar system moves.
- 18. A regular, repeating path of an object around another one. It is called a satellite.
- 20. A fixed group of stars that form configurations of creatures or objects in the sky. satellite An object such as the moon, a planet or a manmade machine that orbits a planet or a star.
Down
- 1. The line at which the earth's surface and the sky appear to meet.
- 2. A group of stars, gas and dust held together by gravity.
- 4. A biannual occurrence in which the sun crosses the celestial equator, when day and night are approximately equal in length.
- 6. The near-vacuum between celestial bodies in where everything is found.
- 7. The growing of a Moon's illumination. The opposite of this process is called waning.
- 8. A small piece of an asteroid or a comet that has entered Earth's atmosphere. Seen as a streak of light in the sky.
- 12. A biannual occurrence in which the sun reaches its maximum or minimum declination marked by the longest and shortest days of the year.
- 13. A huge glowing ball of gas in outer space.
- 17. An interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionized gases that act as a nursery for new stars.
- 19. Eruptions on the surface of the Sun which trigger geomantic storms.