Members of Our Solar System

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Across
  1. 4. Small objects that orbit the Sun, and are too small to be called planets or have an irregular shape
  2. 5. Made of dust from disintegrating nucleus, this tail is pointing the same direction as the gas tail
  3. 7. A meteor once it has made its way to the surface of Earth
  4. 10. dirty snowball
  5. 12. Small, rocky objects from space that is heated up as it enters Earth's atmosphere
  6. 13. made of gases always points away from the sun
  7. 15. When several meteors enter Earth's atmosphere at one time
Down
  1. 1. A cloud of icy planetesimals
  2. 2. Before a meteor enters Earth's atmosphere
  3. 3. a famous comet that passes Earth's orbit every 76 years
  4. 6. objects that orbit the Sun at a farther distance than Neptune
  5. 8. An area of space beyond the orbit of Neptune
  6. 9. Composed of rock, dust, ice and frozen gases such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane, and ammonia
  7. 11. The most visible part of a comet
  8. 14. The Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud are located here