Solar System Crossword
Across
- 4. ____ comet passes earth every 76 years
- 6. commonly referred to as "dirty snowballs"
- 8. between Mars and Jupiter
- 11. the ____ disk is where TNOs are located
- 13. objects that orbit the Sun at a farther distance than Neptune
- 17. the Oort Cloud is full of icy ____
- 18. comets are mostly made of snow and this
- 19. the ____ belt is one of two parts of the scattered disk
Down
- 1. the center of a comet
- 2. the ____ cloud is one of two parts of the scattered disk
- 3. a meteor before it enters Earth's atmosphere
- 5. ____ period comets come from the Kuiper Belt
- 7. when several meteors enter Earth's atmosphere at once
- 9. ____ period comets come from the Oort Cloud
- 10. a meteor that has collided with Earth's surface
- 12. the most visible part of a comet
- 14. large rocks orbiting the sun that are non-spherical/too small to be planets
- 15. the tail of comet always points away from the ____
- 16. small, rocky object that heats up as it enters Earth's atmosphere