Across
- 3. When one heavenly body such as a moon or planet moves into the shadow of another heavenly body
- 6. A celestial body that orbits around a planet, including the eight major planets, dwarf planets, and minor planets
- 7. A time of year, caused by Earth’s tilt. A year on Earth is usually divided into four quarters
- 8. An optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer, containing an arrangement of lenses, or of curved mirrors and lenses. Light rays are collected and focused and the resulting image magnified
- 10. A rock that has fallen from outer space to Earth
Down
- 1. A flattened circle or oval, like the moons orbit around the Earth
- 2. A rocky object in space that can be a few feet wide to several hundred miles wide. Most asteroids in the solar system orbit between Mars and Jupiter
- 4. Is defined as an object that: orbits the sun, has sufficient mass to be round, or nearly round, is not a satellite (moon) of another object, has removed debris and small objects from the area around its orbit
- 5. A fact or event of scientific interest susceptible to scientific description and explanation
- 6. A space rock that becomes so hot it glows when it passes into Earth’s atmosphere, also known as a shooting star
- 9. A fixed luminous point in the night sky which is a large, remote glowing body like the sun