Across
- 6. happens when Earth comes between the Sun and the Moon and the shadow of Earth falls on the moon.
- 10. An event in which the shadow of one celestial body falls on another
- 11. A small rocky body that reaches Earth's surface without burning up completely
- 13. The shadow cast by the Earth or Moon over an area experiencing a partial eclipse. The lighter part of the shadow
- 14. A bright streak of light that results when a small rocky body burns up in the Earth's atmosphere
- 15. A relatively small, rocky body that travels through space
Down
- 1. happens when the Moon comes between the Earth and the Sun and the shadow falls on part of Earth.
- 2. The sunlit portion of the Moon that we can see it getting smaller or decreasing
- 3. a region of the sky that contains a recognizable star pattern and that is used to describe the location of objects in space.
- 4. An instrument that collects electromagnet radiation from the sky and concentrates it for better observation, an optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer, containing an arrangement of lenses, or of curved mirrors and lenses, by which rays of light are collected and focused and the resulting image magnified
- 5. The sunlit portion of the Moon that we can see is getting bigger or increasing
- 7. the fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object, especially the area on the Earth or Moon experiencing the total phase of an eclipse
- 8. More than half but less than fully illuminated phase of the Moon. Hump shaped
- 9. A small rocky object that orbits the Sun, usually in a band between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
- 12. A small body of ice, rock and cosmic dust that follows an elliptical orbit around the Sun and gives off gas and dust in the form of a tail as it passes close to the Sun