The Solar System

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Across
  1. 2. The center of a comet
  2. 3. Small, irregular shaped, rock chunks that orbit the Sun and they are smaller than planets
  3. 6. Most originate from the Oort Cloud or the Kuiper belt
  4. 7. Where most asteroids are located (between Mars and Jupiter)
  5. 9. What a small body starts its life as floating through space between the planets until it makes a bright streak of light in Earth’s atmosphere
Down
  1. 1. Made of dust coming off of a comet
  2. 4. Made of gases and electrons on a comet
  3. 5. Enters Earth's atmosphere, causes friction and heat, and the rock burns up
  4. 8. Surrounds nucleus of comet, made of gases and dust
  5. 9. If the meteor makes it through the atmosphere without disintegrating