Chapter 1.3: Birth of the Solar System
Across
- 5. Our own Sun's stream of escaping particles (2 words)
- 7. Growing body a few hundred km wide; eight became today's planets
- 8. Fusion inside aging suns that builds elements up to iron (2 words)
- 9. Leftover disk around the young Sun that built the planets (2 words)
Down
- 1. Sinking of dense iron to the center that gave the Earth layers
- 2. Model: ice and dust let small protostars collapse enough to ignite (2 words)
- 3. Making of elements heavier than iron in a dying star's blast (2 words)
- 4. Stream of atoms escaping from any sun (2 words)
- 6. Clump over a few hundred meters wide held together by its own gravity
- 9. Heat produced while a planet was forming (2 words)