Across
- 4. the distance light travels in one earth year
- 6. collection of gas, dust, and billions of stars and their solar systems all held together by gravity
- 7. cosmic snowballs of frozen gasses, rock and dust that orbit the sun
- 10. survives its passage through the earth’s atmosphere and lands on the earth’s surface
- 11. regular repeating path that one object in space takes around another one
- 12. appear dark on the surface of the sun
- 14. small rocky object
Down
- 1. orbits around a star
- 2. made up of the sun , eight planets, moons, comets and asteroids
- 3. sphere of gas
- 5. orbits around a planet or star
- 8. a light which results when a meteorite enters the earth’s atmosphere
- 9. natural satellite
- 13. hot ball of gas