Solar System Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. The spinning motion of a planet about its axis
  2. 4. Getting larger, stronger, fuller, etc
  3. 5. The darkest part of a shadow
  4. 8. The daily rise and fall of earth's waters on shore
  5. 9. The two days of the year on which the noon sun is directly overhead at either 23.5 degrees south or 23.5 degrees north
  6. 12. The part of the shadow surrounding the darkest part
  7. 13. An unmanned space craft sent out to investigate planets and other objects in outer space
  8. 14. A streak of light in the sky produced by the burning of a meteoroid in earth's atmosphere
Down
  1. 1. satellite A natural object that revolves around another object in space
  2. 3. The path of an object as it revolves around another object in space
  3. 4. Getting smaller, weaker, dimmer, etc
  4. 6. The movement of an object around another object
  5. 7. A meteoroid that has hit earth's surface
  6. 9. eclipse The blocking of sunlight to earth that occurs
  7. 10. system The sun and all of the planets,asteroids,comets,ect. that move around it
  8. 11. A chunk of rock or dust in space