astronomy vocab
Across
- 4. The addition of matter to a body
- 7. The plume of gas and dust from a comet
- 8. A white band in a Jovian's planet atmosphere, encircling the planet
- 9. Cliffs formed where a planet or moon's crust has shifted
- 11. Regions in the asteroid belt with less than the average number of asteroids
- 12. A planet not orbiting our sun
- 14. The small, solid bodies moving within the Solar System
- 16. The closest that two bodies in space can get before one or both of them are ripped apart by their mutual attraction
- 17. Like a small planet but isn't really a planet
- 18. The planets nearest the sun (Mercury-Mars)
- 21. Occurs when a gas cools and it forms a liquid or solid
- 22. The solid remains of a meteor that falls to Earth
- 23. A meteorite lacking chondrules
- 24. The outflow of low-density, hot gas from the Sun's upper atmosphere
- 25. A vibrating object causing another object to vibrate a higher amplitude
Down
- 1. A region where most most of the solar system's asteroids are located
- 2. The breaking apart of a molecule by intense radiation
- 3. The Sun, planets, their moons, etc that orbit the Sun
- 5. Numerous small, icy objects orbiting beyond Neptune
- 6. A small spherical grain embedded in a meteorite
- 10. A reddish colored region in Jupiter's atmosphere, larger than Earth
- 13. A dark band in a Jovian planet's atmosphere, encircling the planet
- 15. The planets farthest from the sun (Venus-Neptune)
- 19. An asteroid with an orbit that crosses Earth's orbit or comes close to it
- 20. A meteorite containing small spherical grains