The Solar System

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Across
  1. 4. The imaginary line around which a planet rotates
  2. 6. Similar to planets, but they share their orbit with other objects
  3. 7. (ISS) a facility that orbits Earth and is maintained and used by astronauts from sixteen different countries
  4. 8. Beautiful light shows formed by Earth trapping the electrically charged particles at the north and south poles
  5. 9. Rare event when the moon passes between Earth and the sun and casts a shadow on Earth
  6. 10. Planets where surfaces are made up of mostly gas
  7. 11. Each orbit a planet makes around the sun
  8. 12. An object that orbits another object in space
  9. 13. The phase on an eclipse where the moon appears to cover the sun completely
  10. 14. Research space craft sent beyond Earth’s orbit
Down
  1. 1. Occurs when the moon passes through the shadow of the Earth
  2. 2. Bright clouds of gas on the photosphere
  3. 3. Rocky, dense, and Earthlike
  4. 5. An object in the solar system that orbits the sun and is big enough for its own gravity to keep it in the shape of a sphere
  5. 11. One rotation is equal to one day