Astronomy pikkerts-2

12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728
Across
  1. 6. eclipse the blocking of the sun when the moon is directly between the earth and the sun.
  2. 7. a partial or full blocking of one object in space by another.
  3. 10. a pattern or grouping of stars that appear to represent a figure or object
  4. 15. a loose collection of gases that orbits around the sun typically in a long narrow orbit.
  5. 16. the darkest part of a shadow.
  6. 17. either of the two days where the sun reaches the greatest distance north and south of the equator.
  7. 19. the tide withe the most distance from the consecutive low and high tides.
  8. 20. the tide with the least distance from the consecutive low and high tides.
  9. 22. a large rund pit created by the impact of a meteoroid.
  10. 23. the path of an object going around another object in space
  11. 24. a chunk of rock or ice typically smaller than an asteroid.
  12. 25. an object that orbits a star and that is big enough to have become rounded by its own gravity
  13. 26. dark flat areas on the moon created by acient lava flows.
  14. 28. either of the two days that neither hemisphere is pointed directly toward or away from the sun.
Down
  1. 1. the movement of an object around another object
  2. 2. the blocking of sunlight to the moon when the earth is directly between the moon and the sun.
  3. 3. movement or tendency to move toward something.
  4. 4. an object that orbits a planet
  5. 5. the law states that everything in space is attracting to every other object.
  6. 8. a system of organizing a time that defines the beginning and divisions of a year.
  7. 9. one of the different apparent shapes on the moon.
  8. 11. a streak of light in the sky produced by a burning meteoroid in the earth's atmosphere
  9. 12. the periodic rise and fall of the water in the ocean
  10. 13. the area around the darkest shadow.
  11. 14. the attractive force between two objects pulling them closer together.
  12. 18. a ball of hot gas typically nitrogen and helium, that undergoes nuclear fusion
  13. 21. the spinning motion of a planet on its axis
  14. 27. an imaginary line that goes through the center north and south poles on which a planet rotates