Across
- 2. One of Pluto's small dark moons named after the three-headed dog of Greek mythology.
- 3. Describes Pluto's orbit which is tilted at an angle of 17 degrees relative to the plane of the other planets.
- 5. Pluto's stable 2 3 relationship with Neptune where Pluto completes two orbits for every three Neptune orbits.
- 6. A dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt once considered the ninth planet from the Sun.
- 8. The NASA space probe that performed a flyby of Pluto and its moons in 2015.
- 11. Describes Pluto's highly elliptical path around the Sun which sometimes brings it closer than Neptune.
- 13. The American astronomer who discovered Pluto in 1930 at the Lowell Observatory.
- 16. The smooth icy western lobe of Tombaugh Regio which is a vast glacier of frozen nitrogen.
- 18. The disc-shaped region of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune where Pluto resides.
- 19. The large bright heart-shaped feature on the surface of Pluto made of nitrogen and methane ice.
Down
- 1. A specific term for a dwarf planet that orbits the Sun at a distance greater than Neptune.
- 4. Pluto's largest moon so large that the two are sometimes considered a binary system.
- 7. The primary component of the glaciers and bright plains on Pluto's surface.
- 9. The classification for a celestial body that orbits the Sun is nearly round but has not cleared its orbital neighborhood.
- 10. A type of frozen gas found on Pluto's surface that contributes to its reddish-brown areas.
- 12. The astronomical observatory in Flagstaff Arizona where Pluto was discovered.
- 14. One of Pluto's five known moons the outermost one discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope.
- 15. The smallest and innermost of Pluto's moons named after the mythological river.
- 17. One of Pluto's small inner moons discovered along with Hydra in 2005.
