Solar System Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. to spin around its axis
  2. 4. ice and dust that revolves around the sun in an eccentric orbit
  3. 7. a rocky mass that revolves around the sun between Mars and Jupiter
  4. 10. a group of stars that form a pattern
  5. 11. a large, round object that revolves around a star and has cleared the region around its orbit
Down
  1. 1. a sphere of hot, glowing gas that makes its own light and heat and gives off energy
  2. 2. to go around or orbit around another object
  3. 5. a rock floating through space
  4. 6. planet that hasn’t cleared its orbit
  5. 8. an imaginary line around which a planet spins
  6. 9. a natural object that revolves around a planet