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