Small Solar System Objects

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Across
  1. 4. larger than the falling meteoroids that caused them
  2. 6. type of planet pluto is considered now
  3. 7. can be over 100 million kilometers long
  4. 9. the tail of a comet that points away from the sun
  5. 11. Greek word for long hair, origin of the word "comet"
  6. 12. occur when Earth passes through an area with many meteoroids
  7. 14. what all bodies in the solar system orbit
Down
  1. 1. smaller than asteroids
  2. 2. all dwarf planets except Ceres
  3. 3. mistakenly called shooting stars
  4. 4. the largest asteroid
  5. 5. orbit the sun in a belt between Mars and Jupiter
  6. 8. stretches 1,000 times the distance from the Sun to Neptune
  7. 10. fuzzy outer layer of a comet
  8. 13. dwarf planet that may be beyond the Kuiper Belt