Across
- 1. The farthest distance from the sun.
- 6. “shooting star”
- 7. asteroid made up of nickel and silicate
- 8. When several meteors enter Earth’s atmosphere at great speeds.
- 9. formed when a comet gets closer to the Sun
- 10. the biggest asteroid
- 12. The small bodies being part of the Solar system are referred as _____.
- 14. It is the system of stars.
- 16. the asteroids that are bright
- 18. when it hits the Earth’s ground
- 20. The four planets closest to the sun are the ____ solar system.
- 24. It is a diagram that shows the sun is the center.
- 25. “dirty snowballs”
- 28. the task force who assigns names to meteor showers
- 29. “planetoid / miniature planets”
Down
- 1. asteroids that cross but spend most of their time outside Earth’s orbit
- 2. asteroids that approach but do not cross Earth’s orbit.
- 3. It is composed of the sun and the eight planets.
- 4. It separates the eight planets into half.
- 5. The four planets farther to the sun are the ____ solar system.
- 8. way We are in this galaxy.
- 11. asteroids mostly made up of carbon
- 13. the amount of light reflected by a celestial object
- 15. asteroids spends most of their time in Earth’s orbit
- 17. coined the term “asteroid”
- 19. It means that the orbits are not confined to the plane of the solar system.
- 21. small chunks of space debris
- 22. the solid mass in a comet
- 23. the cloud where most comets come from
- 26. The center of our solar system.
- 27. The closest distance from the sun.