Other Members of the Solar System

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Across
  1. 3. known as "the red planet"
  2. 4. a celestial body of gas; the category our Sun is in
  3. 5. 4.5 billion-year-old yellow dwarf star that is the center of the Solar System
  4. 9. an area of space beyond Neptune's orbit containing small rocks thought to be remnants from the formation of the Solar System
  5. 13. the four outer planets in the Solar System with gaseous bodies and rings
  6. 16. the closest planet to the Sun
  7. 17. the four planets closest to the Sun with rocky cores
  8. 18. the planet famous for its rings
  9. 20. nicknamed "dirty snowball(s)", it is composed of an icy, rocky core with two tails that point away from the Sun
  10. 21. small celestial bodies living in the Kuiper belt that may have existed since the birth of the Solar System
  11. 23. a celestial body that lies in the _______ belt between Mars and Jupiter
  12. 24. an abbreviation of objects that orbit the Sun at a farther distance than Neptune
Down
  1. 1. an object that orbits another celestial object
  2. 2. celestial objects that do not belong into the category of a planet or moon
  3. 3. a small, rocky object that is heated up as it enters the Earth's atmosphere
  4. 5. made up of the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud
  5. 6. classified as a dwarf planet since 2006
  6. 7. the largest planet in the Solar System
  7. 8. the distance in which a ray of light would travel in one year
  8. 10. the collection of eight planets and their moons around the Sun
  9. 11. the planet located in the habitable zone
  10. 12. a cloud of icy planetesimals that exists 50,000 AU from the Sun
  11. 14. the hottest planet in the Solar System
  12. 15. a celestial body that is in orbit around the Sun
  13. 19. the planet that spins on its side
  14. 22. the farthest planet from the Sun