Science crossword puzzle
Across
- 4. one of the most famous comets and short-period comet
- 6. "King of meteor showers"
- 9. a large majority on where comets come from.
- 11. It is a celestial object, dwarf planet, and planetoids.
- 13. An amateur astronomer who discovered the asteroid Vesta.
- 15. when a meteor hits the Earth's atmosphere and strikes the ground
- 17. cross and spend most of their time in Earth's orbit.
- 20. Asteroids that approach but do not cross Earth's orbit.
- 22. it is the amount of light reflected by a planet or any celestial objects.
- 23. Asteroids that cross but spend most of their time outside Earth's orbit.
- 24. Closes distance from the sun.
- 25. a celestial object that is crashing through Earth's atmosphere.
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- 1. It is a meteor shower coming from the debris of asteroid 2003EH1.
- 2. It is a long-period comet.
- 3. it is a celestrial event when several meteors enter the Earth's atmosphere.
- 5. It is a meteor shower that happens every 75 to 76 years.
- 7. The other planets that orbits the sun near the plane of Earth's orbit.
- 8. This meteor shower can be observed annually, and its peak is either July or August.
- 10. Named after Gerald Kuiper.
- 12. It comes from the debris of an asteroid called 3200 Phaeton.
- 14. Small chunks of outer space debris that are attracted by Earth's gravity.
- 16. a region of space between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where most of the asteroids in our Solar System are found orbiting the Sun.
- 18. Farthest from the Sun.
- 19. They are located near Jupiter's orbit.
- 21. An celestial object composed of ice and dust.