Comets Meteors and Asteroids Station

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Across
  1. 3. A region beyond the orbit of Neptune that contains multiple comets and asteroids.
  2. 7. A meteor that makes it through the atmosphere without completely disintegrating and hits the Earth’s surface.
  3. 8. Another term that are often used for meteors.
  4. 9. A disk-shaped region between Mars and Jupiter in which hundreds of thousands of asteroids are located.
  5. 10. A curved path of a celestial object around something else, such as planets, stars, and moons.
Down
  1. 1. A asteroid that is smaller than a few meters that is just floating in space, doing nothing.
  2. 2. The region in which planets and other celestial objects, such as Mercury, Mars, Earth, Venus, comets, asteroids, meteoroids, etc., orbit around the Sun.
  3. 4. Small objects that orbit our Sun and are mostly made up of ice and dust. They form a “tail” if they get too close to the Sun.
  4. 5. Small, irregularly shaped chunks of rock that orbit the Sun and are much too small to be considered planets.
  5. 6. A meteoroid that enters the Earth’s atmosphere.