Across
- 3. An object that orbits a star, is large enough to had become rounded by its own gravity, and has cleared the area of its orbit
- 4. A imanginary line that passes through a planet's center and north and south poles, about which the planets rotate
- 5. The darkest part of a shadow
- 7. The periodic rise and fall of the level of water in the ocean
- 8. The spinning motion of a planet on its axis
- 9. A streak of light in the sky produced by the burning of a meteoroid in the earth's atmostphere
- 11. The blocking of sunlight to the moon that occurs when earth is directly between the sun and the moon
- 13. A pattern or grouping stars that people imagine to represent a figure or an object
- 14. The partial or total blocking of one object in space by another
- 15. A loose collection of ice and dust that orbits the sun, typically in a long, narrow orbit
Down
- 1. The part of the shadow surrounding the darkest part
- 2. A ball of hot gas, primarly hydrogen and helium, that undergoes nuclear fusion
- 3. One of the differnet apperent shapes of the moon as seen from the earth
- 6. An object that orbits a planet
- 10. The tide with the greatest differnce between consecutive low and high tides
- 12. The blocking of sunlight to earth that occurs when the moon is directly between the sun and the earth.