Planets and History of Astronomy Crossword Puzzle

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QUESTIONS LIST: solar eclipse: the moon block the light from the sun reaching the earth (order s.m.e.), lunar eclipse: the earth block the light from the sun reaching the moon (order s.e.m.), waning: the illuminated portion of the moon is decreasing. the left side is lit, waxing: the illuminated portion of the moon is increasing. the right side is lit, pluto: a dwarf planet in our solar system that has four moons?, neptune: the 'great dark spot' is on which planet?, uranus: what planet has the largest tilt?, luna: what celestial object has been visited by human? (scientific name), venus: hottest planet in our solar system and rotates backwards, rings: all jovian planets have this in common?, terrestrial: the inner planets are considered what?, jovian: the outer planets are called what?, solid: all terrestrial planets have this in common?, chinese: which civilization recorded the first eclipse, in 2136 bc?, comet: shooting stars really aren’t stars; they are leftover parts of a _ that the earth passes through, meteorite: a meteoroid that passes through the atmosphere and hits the earth’s surface, meteor: a streak of light in the sky produced by the burning of a meteoroid in earth’s atmosphere, asteroid: a rocky metallic objects that orbit the sun but are too small to be considered planets and are leftovers from the formation of the solar system, geocentric: aristotle, a greek astronomer, proposed what model of the solar system in 340 bc?, equinox: term that describes equal amounts of day/night, summer: in what season does aphelion occur?, winter: in what season does the perihelion occur?, tilt: what explains why distance to the sun isn't what makes it winter or summer?, revolution: the movement of an object around another object, rotation: the spinning motion of a planet about its own axis