Our Solar System

1. How many dwarf planets are there?
4. Made up of dust from the disintegrating nucleus on a comet.
6. Leftovers from the formation of the solar system composed of dust, rock, and ice.
7. The most visible part of a comet; encompasses the streams of dust and gas.
10. A dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It was the first asteroid discovered, on 1 January 1801, by Giuseppe Piazzi.
12. A small piece of asteroid or a comet, could be smaller or larger, and often created from a collision.
14. A celestial body resembling a small planet but lacking certain technical criteria that are required for it to be classed as such.
15. Located in the center of a comet, composed of rock, dust, ice, and frozen gases.
16. Some minor planets in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a larger average distance than Neptune.

2. How many planets are there in our solar system?
3. The large round object that circles the Earth and that shines at night by reflecting light from the sun.
5. Are called minor planets and are rocky,
8. Which objects lies mostly in a belt between Mars and Jupiter.
9. The largest asteroid known to date. Roughly as big as Alaska and rotates around the sun once every 1,678 Earth days.
11. A small piece of matter that falls from space with q
13. A celestial body that is in orbit around the Sun and has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it keeps a nearly round shape.
17. What Dwarf planet is located in the Kuiper belt and used to be a regular planet.