Space Vocab

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Across
  1. 1. An imaginary line about which a body rotates.
  2. 3. a coherent, typically large body of matter with no definite shape
  3. 6. Fixed luminous point in the night sky, large like the sun.
  4. 8. All existing matter and space considered as a whole.
  5. 9. he curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.
  6. 10. a celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust and, when near the sun, a “tail” of gas and dust particles pointing away from the sun.
Down
  1. 1. Study of space
  2. 2. an object in space that orbits or circles around a bigger object
  3. 4. celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star.
  4. 5. the natural satellite of the earth, visible (chiefly at night) by reflected light from the sun.
  5. 7. an optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer