Other Members of the Solar System

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Across
  1. 4. Piece of rock that burns up as it passes through the earth's atmosphere.
  2. 6. Where are most asteroids located?
  3. 7. Which of these celestial objects when heated, emits a gas and dust stream outward, forming a tail?
  4. 9. These objects that orbit the sun are nicknamed, "dirty snowballs."
  5. 12. Part of a comet that composed of expelled gas and dust expelled from the comet's nucleus.
  6. 13. They are rocky objects that revolve around the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.
  7. 14. Where do comets orbit?
Down
  1. 1. Nicknamed as space rocks
  2. 2. Region in space beyond the orbit of Neptune.
  3. 3. When a meteoroid STRIKES the surface of the earth scientists refer to them as:
  4. 5. What is a meteor called when it's in space?
  5. 8. The most distant region of the Solar System
  6. 9. Celestial objects are found between the Kuiper belt and Oort cloud that are beyond Neptune.
  7. 10. Objects made of ice, gas and dust and orbit our sun.
  8. 11. They are the left over pieces of the solar system that never came together to form a planet.