The Planets
Across
- 4. The closest planet to the sun
- 5. A small, frozen mass of dust and gas revolving around the sun
- 8. Famous for its ring system
- 10. The system of planets and other objects orbiting the sun
- 13. A small object orbiting a larger one. There are many electronic objects that orbit the Earth
- 14. The only planet to support life
- 15. The distance which a ray of light would travel in one year
- 17. The path a planet takes around the sun
- 18. 1 year on this planet lasts 165 Earth years
- 20. The "red planet"
Down
- 1. An object from Outer Space that falls into the Earth and lands on its surface
- 2. Has the shortest day out of all the planets
- 3. The brightest planet, also known as the sister planet to earth
- 6. smallest of the "Four Giants"
- 7. A grouping of stars which have been given names by astronomers
- 9. The "Dwarf planet"
- 11. A rock, or Minor Planet orbiting the Sun
- 12. Our Galaxy
- 16. A group of stars, gas and dust held together by gravity
- 19. A cloud of gas and dust