Our Solar System

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Across
  1. 5. Smaller rocky planets that orbit the Sun in the inner solar system.
  2. 6. Refers to a meteoroid that enters Earth’s atmosphere and burns up, creating a flash of light. "shooting star"
  3. 7. Large objects made mostly of ice, gasses, rock, and dust that orbit the Sun.
  4. 10. Large chunks of rocky space debris that orbit the sun. Most of them are found in a large “belt” between Mars and Jupiter.
  5. 11. everything within the gravitational pull of the Sun, including planets, asteroids, comets, and meteoroids.
Down
  1. 1. A meteor that doesn’t burn up entirely in Earth’s atmosphere, and lands on the Earth.
  2. 2. Large planets made mostly of gas that orbit the Sun in the outer solar system.
  3. 3. The accepted model of the solar system where the sun is at the center, and planetary objects revolve around it.
  4. 4. A small piece of rocky space debris (dust-sized to 10m) orbiting the sun.
  5. 8. a system of millions or billions of stars, gas, and dust, held together by a strong gravitational pull at its center.
  6. 9. An object the orbits a star (like the Sun), can clear objects from its orbit with its gravitational pull, and has a spherical shape (like a ball).