Solar System

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Across
  1. 6. a group of stars in a pattern given a name by people
  2. 8. 4 small rocky planets closest to sun Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
  3. 9. a round object that orbits the sun and not a planet
  4. 10. small body of ice and dust that orbits the sun
  5. 13. an imaginary line around which a mass like a planet rotates
  6. 14. dwarf planet past pluto
  7. 15. constellation visible in the night sky
Down
  1. 1. a rocky object which can be a few hundred meter sticks wide that orbits the sun
  2. 2. constellation visible in summer sky
  3. 3. beyond earth
  4. 4. the star at the center of the solar system around which all the solar system objects orbit
  5. 5. a comet that travels through the solar system and orbits the sun in an oval pattern
  6. 7. a group of 7 bright stars in the shape of a dipper
  7. 11. the path an object takes around a star such as the sun
  8. 12. planets made of gas and are HUGE; Jupiter, Saturn Uranus, Neptune