Geoscience Crossword - Hayden Winans

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Across
  1. 5. a small body of matter from outer space that enters the earth's atmosphere
  2. 7. Earth-like planets made up of rocks or metals with hard surface
  3. 9. main constituent of gas giant planets
  4. 12. a celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust has a tail of gas
  5. 13. steep slope or cliff
  6. 15. a measure of how circular an orbit is
  7. 16. small body moving in the solar system
  8. 17. not a real planet
Down
  1. 1. large planet mostly composed of helium and or hydrogen.
  2. 2. dark bands
  3. 3. a region of the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune
  4. 4. a body that could or did come together to form a planet
  5. 5. a number of meteors that appear to radiate from one point in the sky at a particular date each year
  6. 6. a unit of measurement equal to 149.6 million killometers
  7. 8. apparent motion of a body in a direction opposite to that of the motions of most members of the solar system
  8. 10. a meteor that survives its passage through earth's atmosphere
  9. 11. oval shape
  10. 14. light colored bands