Across
- 3. the fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object, especially the area on the earth or moon experiencing the total phase of an eclipse.
- 5. streak of light in the sky
- 11. A meteoroid is a small space rock moving through a solar system. ... If a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere, it's called a meteor, or shooting star.
- 12. either of the two times in the year, the summer solstice and the winter solstice, when the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon, marked by the longest and shortest days.
- 15. object that orbits a planet
- 17. an imaginary line about which a body rotates.
- 18. is a circular movement of an object around a center (
- 19. an obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another between it and the observer or between it and its source of illumination.
- 23. is a force that attracts any objects with mass.
- 24. is a regular, repeating path that an object in space takes around another one.
- 25. of universal states that every particle attracts every other particle in the universe with a force which is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers.
Down
- 1. is a bowl-shaped depression produced by the impact of a meteorite, volcanic activity, or an explosion
- 2. eclipse an eclipse in which the sun is obscured by the moon.
- 4. the shadow cast by the earth or moon over an area experiencing a partial eclipse.
- 6. is a physically distinctive form of matter, such as a solid, liquid, gas, or plasma
- 7. the time or date (twice each year) at which the sun crosses the celestial equator, when day and night
- 8. a chart or series of pages showing the days, weeks, and months of a particular year, or giving particular seasonal information.
- 9. are the cyclic rising and falling of Earth's ocean surface caused by the tidal forces of the Moon and the Sun acting on the Earth.
- 10. group of stars that forms an imaginary outline or pattern on the celestial sphere, typically representing an animal, mythological person or creature, a god, or an inanimate object.
- 12. tide a period of moderate tides when the sun and moon are at right angles to each other.
- 13. tide refers to a period of moderate tides when the sun and moon are at right angles to each other.
- 14. is the movement of one object around a center or another object, a forceful overthrow of a government by the people or any sudden or grand change.
- 15. a ball of hot gas
- 16. a loose collection of ice and dust that orbits
- 20. An object that orbits a star is long enough to have become rounded by its own gravity
- 21. Gravity is a force which tries to pull two objects toward each other
- 22. large, dark, basaltic plains on Earth's Moon, formed by ancient volcanic eruptions.