Across
- 2. When the moon casts another part of its shadow that is less dark then the umbra
- 4. Occurs at a full moon when earth is directly between the moon and the sun
- 6. the path of an object as it revolves around another object is space
- 7. the movement of an object around another object
- 8. the partial or total blocking of one object in space by anoter
- 11. the attractive force between objects
- 12. an object that has enough gravity to round itself, and orbits a star
- 13. a collection of ice and dust the has a short orbit around a star
- 16. the blocking of sunlight to Earth that occurs when the moon is directly between the sun and Earth
- 17. The rise and fall of ocean water that occurs every 12.5 hours or so
- 18. An imaginary line that passes through a planet's center
- 22. Chunks of rock or dust from space
- 24. a pattern or group of stars that people see as objects
- 25. a ball of hot gas, mostly hydrogen and helium
- 26. Large round pits that can be hundreds of kilometers across
Down
- 1. one of the different apparent shapes of the moon a seen on Earth
- 3. I tied with the least difference between consecutive low low and high tides
- 5. the scientific law that states that every object in the universe attracts every other object
- 9. Either two days of the year on which neither hemisphere is tilted away or towards the sun
- 10. the spinning motion of a planet on its axis
- 14. When combined forces produce a tide what's the greatest difference between consecutive low and high tides
- 15. a meteoroid that enters Earth's atmosphere
- 19. The very darkest part of the Moonshadow
- 20. an object that orbits a planet
- 21. a system of organizing time that defines the beginning, length, and divisions of a year
- 22. Dark, flat areas, are hardened rock formed from huge lava flows that occurred 3-4,000,000,000 years ago
- 23. either of the two days of the year on which the sun reaches its greatest distance north or south of the equator