Across
- 2. Like a planet but hasn't cleared it's neighborhood
- 4. Once it reaches the atmosphere and starts to burn up in a “streak of light”
- 5. The process through which planetesimals become planets
- 7. Geological remains of an impact
- 8. Non-metallic class of meteorites
- 9. Subclass of planets: gaseous
- 12. Icy body with two tails
- 13. When a rock from space reaches the surface of the earth
- 14. Subclass of planets: rocky
- 15. The shape of comet orbits
Down
- 1. Meteorites from the beginning of the solar system
- 3. The center of a comet
- 4. A natural satellite of a planet
- 6. Smaller than an asteroid but may have similar composition
- 10. Rocky body smaller than a planet that orbits the sun
- 11. Tail of a comet made by the solar wind