Science Meteor Showers - a.l 2-15-23
Across
- 2. the smallest meteor shower
- 4. generates 10-15 meteors per hour
- 6. perseid shower
- 10. shower when earth passes through the orbital path of a comet, when that occurs Earth intersects the dust & gravel left behind by the comet & we observe the showers
- 14. burns up meteors
- 15. an extemely bright meteor
- 17. killer
- 18. specific meteor shower during early january
- 23. the biggest meteor shower
- 24. best time to see a meteor shower
- 25. specific meteor shower during mid april
Down
- 1. specific meteor shower during early/mid august
- 3. specific meteor shower during mid december
- 5. geminid shower
- 7. a radiant is the point from where the meteors appear to be coming
- 8. small, rocky body moving within the solar system.
- 9. specific meteor shower during mid/late October
- 11. meteorite that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs
- 12. (shooting star)- bright trail of light created by small solid particles entering the Earth's atmosphere & burning up
- 13. specific meteor shower during mid November
- 16. leonid shower
- 19. begins to glow at a height of 80 mi and burns out at about 50 mi.
- 20. the first lady to be hit by a meteorite
- 21. solid remains of a meteor that falls to the Earth.
- 22. Meteors that come from random directions and may fall at any time. (meteorites)