Small Bodies in the Solar System

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Across
  1. 2. a small body of ice, rock, and dust that follows a elliptical orbit around the sun
  2. 5. many meteoroids explode in the upper
  3. 6. located beyond the orbit of Neptune
  4. 7. a bright streak of light that results when a meteoroid burns up in Earth's atmosphere
  5. 8. a small irregular shaped, rocky object that orbits the sun
  6. 9. the largest of the small bodies
  7. 11. take up to hundreds of thousands of years to orbit the sun
  8. 13. is the most common form of meteorites
  9. 14. is a spherical cloud of gas and dust that comes off the nucleus
Down
  1. 1. take less than 200 years to orbit the sun
  2. 2. located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
  3. 3. ammonia ice, and water ice is what objects are made of in the Kuiper Belt
  4. 4. is a sand grain to boulder sized, rocky body that travels through space
  5. 10. a spherical region that surrounds the solar system and extends almost halfway to the nearest star
  6. 12. is what scientists think asteroids are rich in