pluto

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Across
  1. 2. year on this is 248 Earth years.
  2. 3. relatively small planetoid, smaller than the Earth's moon.
  3. 5. had been discovered decades earlier
  4. 6. fictional dog that belongs to Mickey Mouse. He is a golden-yellow mutt with a green colla
  5. 8. in the Kuiper Belt
  6. 10. was discovered while searching for planet X
  7. 12. closer to the Sun than Neptune
  8. 13. orbit is erratic
  9. 16. first vessel devoted to studying Pluto's environment, is the size of a grand piano.
  10. 17. of its moons, Charon, is about half
  11. 19. considered a planet until 2006
  12. 20. only about half the width of the United States.
Down
  1. 1. Scientists discovered the Solar System’s third zone
  2. 2. was made due to an error in the calculations
  3. 4. has a heart shape on its surface
  4. 5. an extremely elliptical orbit that's not in the same plane as the eight official planets' orbits
  5. 6. just the tip of the iceberg
  6. 7. a heart shape on its surface.
  7. 9. a dwarf plant
  8. 10. dense and rocky, like the terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars)
  9. 11. It has not yet cleared the neighborhood of its orbit in space
  10. 14. are white mountains
  11. 15. is smaller than the Moon
  12. 17. than Earth's moon but larger than previously thought
  13. 18. closer to The Sun than Neptune