Across
- 3. asteroids are ________ than meteoroids
- 5. when a meteor is in space
- 6. when a meteor survives the impact of hitting a planet it is called
- 8. comets have 2 tails - the ion tail and the dirt tail
- 10. small, irregularly shaped chunks of rock that orbit the Sun, but are too small to be planets.
Down
- 1. a disk shaped area between Mars and Jupiter that contains asteroids and meteoroids
- 2. live in the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud and are made of ice, dust, and gas
- 4. nucleus, coma, ion tail, dust tail
- 7. Orbit of asteroids,comets, and meteoroids
- 9. enters a planet's atmosphere and burns up