Across
- 3. The solid core of a comet.
- 4. One of the most visible and widely observed comets in the 1990s.
- 5. Part of a comet that points away from the Sun.
- 7. The path one object takes around another in space.
- 10. A space object made of ice and dust that develops a tail when near the Sun.
- 13. A small rock or particle in space before it enters Earth’s atmosphere.
- 14. A streak of light caused by a meteoroid burning in Earth’s atmosphere.
- 15. A bowl-shaped dent caused by a meteorite hitting a surface.
Down
- 1. The event of a meteoroid striking a planet or moon.
- 2. The belt beyond Neptune filled with icy bodies and dwarf planets.
- 6. Rocky object that orbits the Sun, mostly found in the belt between Mars and Jupiter.
- 8. Tiny particles that trail from a comet’s nucleus.
- 9. A meteoroid that survives its journey and lands on Earth.
- 11. The largest object in the asteroid belt and classified as a dwarf planet.
- 12. A distant cloud of icy bodies surrounding the solar system, source of long-period comets.