Solar System Bodies - ADCM
Across
- 2. Force which pulls a planet or other body draws objects
- 5. An area of space beyond the orbit of Neptune (50 AU)
- 7. Objects that orbit the sun at a farther distance than Neptune
- 10. Satellite body orbiting a planet
- 13. Second smallest planet in our solar system
- 16. Celestial body that lies mostly between Mars and Jupiter
- 18. Ion tail made of gases that always points away from the sun
- 19. Commonly referred as "dirty snowballs"
- 21. Includes the Sun, planets, moons, and other objects
- 22. Habitable planet in our solar system
- 23. The planet with rings
- 25. Nebula cloud flattened into a spinning disc shape and a ___ forms at the center
- 26. Planet named after a goddess
Down
- 1. As planetesimals form into ___, they develop their own gravitational fields.
- 3. Closest planet to the sun
- 4. Farthest planet from the sun
- 6. Most visible part of a comet
- 8. Center of a comet
- 9. Largest planet in our solar system
- 11. A cloud of dust and gas
- 12. Grains of dust go through accretion and create small, irregularly-shaped objects known as ___
- 14. Planet has visible rings
- 15. Tail made of dust from the disintegrating nucleus
- 17. Frozen water
- 20. A small, rocky object that heats up when it enters Earth's atmosphere
- 23. The star in the Milky Way solar system
- 24. Appears to spin sideways