Members of the Solar System
Across
- 4. A comet's ion tail made up of gases always pointing away from the Sun
- 6. Cloud of icy planetisimals in the Scattered Disk that are 50,000 AU from the Sun
- 8. Objects that orbit the Sun at a distance farther than Neptune
- 13. Small, rocky object that burns up in the atmosphere and has hit Earth's surface
- 14. Made up of the disintegrating nucleus of a comet
- 15. Area in space holding different Trans-Neptunian Objects
Down
- 1. Area of small, rocky bodies in the Scattered Disk that are remnants of the formation of the Solar System that lie beyond Neptune's orbit
- 2. Most visible part of a comet
- 3. Name of a famous comet that passes Earth every 76 years
- 5. Referred to as dirty snowballs
- 7. Small, rocky object that hasn't entered Earth's atmosphere yet
- 9. The center of a comet
- 10. Lies between Mars and Jupiter
- 11. Most famous dwarf planet
- 12. Small, rocky object that is heated up as it enters Earth's atmosphere