Solar System Crossword - Eddie Willauer

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Across
  1. 2. The gaseous atmosphere surrounding the head of a comet.
  2. 4. One of the numerous small, solid bodies that, when accreted together, form a planet.
  3. 6. A small, generally rocky, solid body orbiting the Sun and ranging in diameter from a few meters to hundreds of kilometers.
  4. 7. The plume of gas and dust from a comet.
  5. 8. The solid remains of a meteor that falls to Earth.
  6. 9. The component of a star's motion in the direction toward or away from Earth.
  7. 12. The theory that the Solar System formed from a rotating cloud of gas and dust; the solar nebula.
  8. 14. A disk of gas and dust surrounding a young star out of whic planetary systems form.
  9. 16. Regions in the asteroid belt with fewer than the average number of asteroids.
  10. 18. Microscopic solid dust particles in interstellar space.
  11. 19. A meteorite lacking chondrules.
  12. 21. A planet that does not orbit our Sun.
  13. 23. A small, icy object orbiting the outer part of the Solar System beyond the orbit of Neptune.
  14. 25. The addition of matter to a body.
Down
  1. 1. The bending of light from a distant star as the star's light travels past our Sun.
  2. 3. The outflow of low-density, hot gas from the Sun's upper atmosphere.
  3. 5. Planets that closely resemble Earth.
  4. 10. A cloud of gas and dust in between the stars.
  5. 11. The technical name for the small, solid bodies moving within the Solar System.
  6. 13. An asteroid with an orbit that crosses Earth's orbit or comes close to it.
  7. 15. A region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter in which most of the Solar System's asteroids are located.
  8. 17. Planets that closely resemble Jupiter.
  9. 20. A meteorite containing small spherical grains called chondrules.
  10. 22. The bright trail of light created by small solid particles entering Earth's atmosphere and burning up.
  11. 24. A small spherical grain embedded in a meteorite.