Pluto Lesson 8

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Across
  1. 2. a region of the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune containing comets, asteroids, and other small bodies made largely of ice
  2. 4. Pluto
  3. 5. the astronomer who discovered Ceres in 1801
  4. 7. the girl who named Pluto
  5. 8. a dwarf planet roughly the same size as Pluto and currently the second furthest known object in the solar system
  6. 11. a disc shaped region of the solar system between Mars and Jupiter
  7. 12. the astronomer who discovered Pluto in 1930
  8. 13. any dwarf planet found in the Kuiper belt
Down
  1. 1. an organization whose mission is to promote and safeguard the science of astronomy
  2. 3. the fourth planet to be designated a dwarf planet
  3. 6. a plutoid whose controversy is who discovered it first
  4. 9. astronomer who finds objects in the Kuiper belt
  5. 10. the first dwarf planet discovered and the only one located in the asteroid belt