Other Members of the Solar System

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Across
  1. 4. Which of these celestial objects when heated, emits a gas and dust stream outward, forming a tail?
  2. 6. Where are most asteroids located?
  3. 9. They are rocky objects that revolve around the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.
  4. 10. Objects made of ice, gas and dust and orbit our sun.
  5. 12. Part of a comet that composed of expelled gas and dust expelled from the comet's nucleus.
  6. 14. Where do comets orbit?
  7. 15. Region in space beyond the orbit of Neptune.
Down
  1. 1. When a meteoroid STRIKES the surface of the earth scientists refer to them as:
  2. 2. Celestial objects are found between the Kuiper belt and Oort cloud that are beyond Neptune.
  3. 3. These objects that orbit the sun are nicknamed, "dirty snowballs."
  4. 5. Piece of rock that burns up as it passes through the earth's atmosphere.
  5. 7. Nicknamed as space rocks
  6. 8. They are the left over pieces of the solar system that never came together to form a planet.
  7. 11. The most distant region of the Solar System
  8. 13. What is a meteor called when it's in space?