Across
- 2. Terrestrial planet, the only planet known to harbor life.
- 5. a giant cloud of dust and gas only visible with special telescopes
- 7. a minor planet smaller than a dwarf planet orbiting the sun
- 9. Terrestrial planet that orbits the sun the fastest
- 11. 8 light minutes, 93 million miles, the distance from Earth to the Sun
- 12. a telescope studying space using mostly the visible light spectrum.
- 17. 5.88 trillion miles, the amount of distance it takes light to travel in a year
- 18. a planet large enough in size to be spherical and has cleared its orbital path.
- 19. a meteoroid that enters Earths atmosphere and burns up before hitting Earth, "shooting star"
- 20. the coldest planet orbiting on its side
- 21. a small icy object that orbits the sun and produces a tail of evaporating ice
- 22. an object orbiting the sun smaller than an asteroid
Down
- 1. a telescope observing the universe using infrared light.
- 3. gas giant known for its large rings
- 4. a planet discovered using math and named before it was seen with a telescope
- 6. Terrestrial planet, has two moons and the largest volcano in the solar system.
- 8. a small planet, too small to be spherical, and has not cleared its orbital path.
- 10. the planet that protects Earth from asteroid impacts
- 13. the amount of planets the solar system has.
- 14. an object from space that makes contact with Earths surface
- 15. the attraction between objects that increases with more mass.
- 16. Terrestrial planet that maintains the hottest temperatures