Space time for little rats

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Across
  1. 3. the outflow of low-density, hot gas from the Sun’s upper atmosphere.
  2. 4. a planet that grew largely by gravitationally attracting gas from the disk of gas out of which a planetary system forms
  3. 6. the addition of matter to a body
  4. 8. a planet not orbiting our Sun.
  5. 9. a small, generally rocky, solid body orbiting the Sun and ranging in diameter from a few meters to hundreds of kilometers.
  6. 10. the point in the sky from which meteors in showers appear to come
  7. 13. a stream of ionized particles evaporated from a comet and then swept away from the Sun by the solar wind
  8. 16. a planet orbiting in the inner part of the Solar System
  9. 17. the solid remains of a meteor that falls to Earth.
  10. 19. The gas cloud around a comet
  11. 20. a region from which some comets come
  12. 22. a small spherical grain embedded in a meteorite.
  13. 23. a vast region in which comet nuclei orbit
  14. 24. one of the giant, gaseous planets
Down
  1. 1. a meteorite containing small spherical grains called chondrules
  2. 2. the passage of a celestial body such as a planet across the face of a larger body such as a star
  3. 4. the bending of light from a distant object to form an image
  4. 5. one of the numerous small, solid bodies that, when accreted together, form a planet
  5. 7. a comet tail containing dust that reflects sunlight
  6. 11. a meteorite lacking chondrules
  7. 12. the chunk of ice that makes up the main body of a comet
  8. 14. the technical name for the small, solid bodies moving within the Solar System
  9. 15. A chunk of ice surrounded by gas in space
  10. 18. the bright trail of light created by small solid particles entering Earth’s atmosphere and burning
  11. 21. a large, gas-rich planet that grew primarily through the accretion of ice-rich planetesimals