Chapter 2 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. A measure of how large an object looks to you
  2. 4. Half the long dimension of an ellipse
  3. 6. The shift in an object's position caused by the observer's motion
  4. 7. Models of the solar system centered on the Earth
  5. 10. A geometric figure related to a circle but flattened into an oval
Down
  1. 1. A body orbiting a planet
  2. 3. The drift of a planet westward against the background stars
  3. 5. Models of the solar system centered on the Sun
  4. 8. A fictitious, small, and circular orbit superimposed on another circular orbit and proposed by early astronomers to explain the retrograde motion of the planets
  5. 9. One of two points within an ellipse used to generate the elliptical shape