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