Solar System Challenge
Across
- 2. I am a hypothetical planet in which researchers have found evidence of my existence, but I am found in deep space.
- 3. _________ comet is the most famous comet and takes about 76 years to travel around the Sun.
- 7. Which planet is named after a Roman god, who is known as Zeus to those in Greek mythology?
- 10. This is the only planet that rotates on it's side.
- 12. This is a dwarf planet that is extremely cold and only 1/9 of the radius of Earth.
- 13. Is the name for a celestial body in our solar system that is not one of our 8 planets, and is another name for the god Hades.
- 14. considered to be a giant spherical shell surrounding the universe.
- 17. I was discovered by William Lassell who was an amateur astronomer in 19th century England.
- 18. This planet's moons orbit the closest to the planet itself compared to the other moons and planets in the solar system.
Down
- 1. This amino acid _____ was found in comet dust and here on Earth is used by organisms to make proteins.
- 4. This show first aired in 1966 and took inspiration from the cosmos.
- 5. Our Solar system makes up the _______ arm of the Milky Way galaxy.
- 6. This was the first planet in our solar system that was explored by a spacecraft.
- 8. Our sun is considered a ___________ (hint 2 words, no space) star.
- 9. the name of Pluto's largest moon.
- 11. this planet has 5 main rings, and is not the planet saturn.
- 15. There are roughly ____ billion galaxies in the universe.
- 16. Our Sun is a giant ball of ______.