Across
- 2. caused by a meteoroid crashing through Earth's atmosphere
- 7. Highly elliptical orbit
- 9. The word comet comes from the Greek word
- 10. located between the planets Mars and Jupiter
- 11. The month when Ceres was discovered in 1801
Down
- 1. are precious rock samples preserving material from the birth of the Solar System 4.6 billion years ago
- 3. The one who discovered the first Asteroid
- 4. the largest asteroid in the main asteroid belt, and the first asteroid to be discovered
- 5. composed of ices, dust and rocky debris carried from the early formation of the solar system about 4.5 billion years ago.
- 6. Sometimes called minor planets
- 8. Cloud collection of icy objects farther away than everything else in the solar system