The Solar System
Across
- 2. a bright moving object in space which has a tail of gas and dust
- 6. a Latin name for an adjective meaning “having to do with” the sky
- 7. people are sending these vehicles in space to explore it
- 11. when two moving things crash into each other (v)
- 12. the star from which we get light and warmth
- 13. an extremely large region in space far far away from where the events of Star Wars happen
- 14. the planet which has life on its surface
Down
- 1. they did it to Pluto naming it a dwarf planet (v)
- 3. between stars (adj)
- 4. a rather big round celestial object which doesn’t satisfy the criteria of a planet
- 5. an accident near Tunguska river in 1908 was caused by this object
- 8. a massive rock that moves around in space
- 9. very large round object that is gravitationally locked and rotates near a star
- 10. Way might be a chocolate bar but not in this context
- 12. a very large hot ball of gas that we see as a tiny dot in the sky