Other Solar System Bodies

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Across
  1. 2. Earth ______ on its own axis (1 day)
  2. 3. The big dipper is a ______ inside of the constellation called Ursa Major
  3. 5. These do not have enough mass/gravity to clear their orbits
  4. 7. People usually call these "shooting stars"
  5. 8. Believed earth was a sphere due to curved edges observed during a lunar eclipse
  6. 9. They travel in a long eliptical orbit around the sun which can change through the gravitational attraction between planets
Down
  1. 1. This type of planets are composed of rocky materials
  2. 4. A chunk of rock from space that hits the surface of earth
  3. 6. Are small bodies that are believed to be leftover romains from the formation of the solar system
  4. 7. Astronomers call these "satellites"