Astronomy Quiz Crossword
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
 
 
Down: 2) A meteoroid that hits the Earth's surface.4) The blocking of light from one object by another.5) The star groups that resemble familiar objects or characters.7) The concentration of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.9) The inner planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. They have solid, rocky surfaces.13) A celestial body that revolves around a planet.16) The average distance from Earth to the sun; approximately 93 million miles (100 million kilometers)20) An object bigger than an asteroid orbiting a star.21) A unit of length equal to the distance that light can travel in one year in a vacuum; approximately 5.88 trillion miles23) A star; the star at the center of our solar system. Across: 1) The study of celestial bodies that include the stars, planets, and comets.3) An event where a large number of meteoroids burn up as they enter Earth's atmosphere.6) The path the moon, planets, asteroids, and comets follow as they travel around the sun.8) The space rock or dust from a comet or broken-up asteroid.10) The sun and all the objects revolving around the sun.11) The imaginary surface that contains an object's path.12) The irregular-shaped rocks, smaller than planets, that revolve around the sun.13) A meteoroid (space rock or dust from a comet or a borken up asteroid) that burns up in the atmosphere.14) The spinning of an object.15) The force that keeps planets in orbit around the sun and governs the rest of the motion in the solar system.17) A combination of ice, dust, and rock material that moves in an orbit around the sun.18) An oval shape19) The orbit of a planet around the sun or a satellite around a planet.22) The planets, sun, moons, stars, and everything that exist in space.24) A group of billions of stars25) A small body that orbits around a larger body.26) A distant sun glowing from heat produced by nuclear reactions at its center.
 

 

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