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Across
  1. 3. a celestial body resembling a small planet but lacking certain technical criteria that are required for it to be classed as such.
  2. 7. the collection of eight planets and their moons in orbit around the sun, together with smaller bodies in the form of asteroids, meteoroids and comets
  3. 9. a small, rapidly moving meteor burning up on entering the earth's atmosphere.
  4. 10. a region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter or radiation can escape.
  5. 11. the planet on which we live; the world.
  6. 13. The eighth planet from the Sun and the fourth largest, with a diameter almost four times that of Earth
  7. 14. the smallest planet in our solar system and nearest to the Sun
  8. 16. the fifth planet from our Sun and is, by far, the largest planet in the solar system
Down
  1. 1. It's dry, rocky, and bitter cold. The fourth planet from the Sun,
  2. 2. is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System
  3. 4. a celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star.
  4. 5. a celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust and, when near the sun,
  5. 6. a cloud-swaddled planet named for a love goddess, and often called Earth's twin
  6. 7. the star around which the earth orbits.
  7. 8. a fixed luminous point in the night sky which is a large, remote incandescent body like the sun.
  8. 9. a continuous area or expanse which is free, available, or unoccupied.
  9. 12. a hypocycloid with four cusps
  10. 14. a number of meteors that appear to radiate from one point in the sky
  11. 15. the seventh planet from the Sun. It is a gaseous cyan-coloured ice giant