Members of the Solar System

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Across
  1. 2. System – The Sun and everything that orbits it
  2. 6. Comet – Comet that orbits the Sun in less than 200 years
  3. 9. Belt – Region beyond Neptune filled with icy objects
  4. 11. Tail – Gas tail of a comet that points away from the Sun
  5. 12. – The path an object takes around another object
  6. 13. Orbit – An oval-shaped path around the Sun
  7. 14. – Icy object that forms a glowing tail when near the Sun
  8. 16. – A streak of light seen when space debris burns in Earth’s atmosphere
  9. 18. – A small piece of rock traveling through space
  10. 19. Tail – Tail made of small solid particles
Down
  1. 1. Comet – Comet that takes more than 200 years to orbit
  2. 3. – The solid center of a comet
  3. 4. – Force that pulls objects toward each other
  4. 5. – A meteoroid that reaches Earth’s surface
  5. 7. Cloud – Distant spherical cloud where long-period comets come from
  6. 8. Object – Asteroid or comet that passes close to Earth
  7. 10. – Rocky object mostly found between Mars and Jupiter
  8. 15. – Leftover material from space collisions
  9. 17. Crater – Bowl-shaped hole formed by a collision
  10. 20. – The glowing trail of gas and dust from a comet