Solar System Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. ____ comet passes earth every 76 years
  2. 6. commonly referred to as "dirty snowballs"
  3. 8. between Mars and Jupiter
  4. 11. the ____ disk is where TNOs are located
  5. 13. objects that orbit the Sun at a farther distance than Neptune
  6. 17. the Oort Cloud is full of icy ____
  7. 18. comets are mostly made of snow and this
  8. 19. the ____ belt is one of two parts of the scattered disk
Down
  1. 1. the center of a comet
  2. 2. the ____ cloud is one of two parts of the scattered disk
  3. 3. a meteor before it enters Earth's atmosphere
  4. 5. ____ period comets come from the Kuiper Belt
  5. 7. when several meteors enter Earth's atmosphere at once
  6. 9. ____ period comets come from the Oort Cloud
  7. 10. a meteor that has collided with Earth's surface
  8. 12. the most visible part of a comet
  9. 14. large rocks orbiting the sun that are non-spherical/too small to be planets
  10. 15. the tail of comet always points away from the ____
  11. 16. small, rocky object that heats up as it enters Earth's atmosphere