Across
- 2. Smaller bodies collide and stick together, forming larger bodies in a process called _______.
- 5. ______% of the material in the solar nebula became the sun.
- 7. process in which objects are broken apart
- 8. When a nebula reaches a certain size and mass, it is more likely to ___________.
- 12. the direction of rotation & revolution for most objects in the solar system
- 13. the large shock wave sent out when the sun began nuclear fusion
- 15. small rocky material ended up here
- 16. Anything that has _______ has gravity.
- 17. A planetesimal becomes a __________ when it has swept its orbit clean.
Down
- 1. the force that holds massive objects/systems together
- 3. a process in which particles come out of the gas phase and form small pieces of solid or liquid
- 4. objects in the Kuiper Belt are mostly made of this
- 6. "little planets"
- 9. The _____________ of an object largely determined where it ended up in the solar system.
- 10. anytime two or more objects hit each other
- 11. the nebula became a _______ when it started to collapse and spin
- 14. a large cloud of gas and dust in space
