Astronomy By Birdie Engelkemier

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Across
  1. 2. A term used to describe water in solid form
  2. 3. A measure of the total amount of material in a body
  3. 5. The path of a celestial body as it moves through space.
  4. 6. planet closest to the Sun in our Solar System
  5. 8. The angular distance of an object above the horizon.
  6. 9. eighth planet from the sun in our solar system
  7. 10. the second planet from the sun in our solar system
  8. 11. the red planet, is the fourth planet from the sun and the most Earth-like planet in our solar system
  9. 13. the seventh planet from the sun in our solar system
  10. 14. huge group of stars, dust, gas, and other celestial bodies bound together by gravitational forces
  11. 17. small, icy celestial body that orbits around the sun
  12. 18. someone who studies astronomy
  13. 19. The total or partial blocking of one celestial body by another
  14. 23. rocky or metallic objects, most of which orbit the Sun
Down
  1. 1. The collapsed core of a massive star
  2. 3. A word used to describe anything that contains mass
  3. 4. star located at the center of our Solar System
  4. 6. meteoroid that has entered the Earth's atmosphere, usually making a fiery trail as it falls
  5. 7. group of stars that, when seen from Earth, form a pattern
  6. 11. cold, dry orb whose surface is studded with craters and strewn with rocks and dust orbiting Earth
  7. 12. fifth and largest planet in our solar system
  8. 15. force that pulls thing down
  9. 16. phenomenon in which many meteors fall through the atmosphere in a relatively short time
  10. 20. sixth planet from the sun in our solar system
  11. 21. third planet from the Sun in our Solar System
  12. 22. enormous glowing ball of gas