Asteroids, Meteors, and Comets
Across
- 3. a small body of matter from outer space the enters Earth's atmosphere
- 5. the resistance that one surface of object encounters when moving oven another causing heat
- 7. made up of a nucleus or ice and dust
- 8. region of the solar system beyond the orbit of Nepture believed to contain comets, asteroids, and other small bodies made largely of ice
- 10. a loarge, bowl-shaped cavity in the ground typically caused by a crashing meteorite
- 11. any natural body outside of the Earth's atmosphere (ex. moon, Sun, other planets, comets)
- 12. the shape of a comet's orbit
Down
- 1. a spherical area filled with comets far beyond the outermost planets
- 2. a meteor that survives the Earth's atmosphere and lands on the ground
- 4. the envelope of gases surrounding the Earth or another planet
- 6. a small, rapidly moving meteor burning up in the Earth's atmosphere
- 9. of or from outside the Earth