Astronomy Quiz Crossword
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
 
 
Down: 1) An event where a large number of meteoroids burn up as they enter Earth's atmosphere.2) The spinning of an object.4) An oval shape5) The average distance from Earth to the sun; approximately 93 million miles (100 million kilometers)6) The star groups that resemble familiar objects or characters.10) The space rock or dust from a comet or broken-up asteroid.11) A unit of length equal to the distance that light can travel in one year in a vacuum; approximately 5.88 trillion miles12) A meteoroid that hits the Earth's surface.15) A group of billions of stars18) The sun and all the objects revolving around the sun.21) The concentration of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.23) A small body that orbits around a larger body. Across: 3) An object bigger than an asteroid orbiting a star.7) The orbit of a planet around the sun or a satellite around a planet.8) A celestial body that revolves around a planet.9) A star; the star at the center of our solar system.10) A meteoroid (space rock or dust from a comet or a borken up asteroid) that burns up in the atmosphere.13) The inner planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. They have solid, rocky surfaces.14) A combination of ice, dust, and rock material that moves in an orbit around the sun.16) The irregular-shaped rocks, smaller than planets, that revolve around the sun.17) The path the moon, planets, asteroids, and comets follow as they travel around the sun.19) The force that keeps planets in orbit around the sun and governs the rest of the motion in the solar system.20) The imaginary surface that contains an object's path.22) A distant sun glowing from heat produced by nuclear reactions at its center.24) The blocking of light from one object by another.25) The planets, sun, moons, stars, and everything that exist in space.26) The study of celestial bodies that include the stars, planets, and comets.
 

 

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