Solar System

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Across
  1. 4. / a tail pointing in the same direction as the gas tail
  2. 5. / composed of an icy, rocky core that has two tails that point away from the Sun
  3. 8. / object that orbits the Sun at a farther distance than Neptune
  4. 12. / area of space beyond the orbit of Neptune to around 50 AU from the Sun
  5. 13. / an ion tail made of gasses that always point away from the Sun
  6. 15. / when several meteors enter Earth´s atmosphere at one time
Down
  1. 1. / has asteroids and is in between Mars and Jupiter
  2. 2. / a cloud of icy planetesimals that exist 50,000 AU from the Sun
  3. 3. / a comet that passes Earth´s orbit every 76 years
  4. 6. / the occasional name of comets
  5. 7. / most visible part of a comet
  6. 9. / center of a comet;composed of rock, dust, ice and frozen gasses
  7. 10. / an object that heats up when crashing into Earth´s atmosphere
  8. 11. / when a meteor crashes onto Earth´s surface
  9. 14. / an celestial body that lies mostly in the asteroid belt