Space Objects

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Across
  1. 2. What we look up and see
  2. 5. Located primarily in the Asteroid Belt, but can travel elsewhere
  3. 6. Most famous dwarf planet
  4. 7. Cloud of icy planetesimals 50,000 AU from the Sun
  5. 9. A small, rocky object that is heated as it enters Earth's atmosphere
  6. 10. Famous comet,passes Earth's orbit every 76 years
  7. 12. Area beyond the orbit of Neptune (50 AU), contains small, rocky bodies
Down
  1. 1. Name for a Meteor once it hits the Earth's surface
  2. 3. The area between Mars and Jupiter
  3. 4. Name for a Meteor when it enters Earth's atmosphere
  4. 8. An object that orbits further from the Sun than Neptune, abbreviation TNO
  5. 11. Icy, rocky core with two tails that point away from the Sun. Highly elliptical orbit. "Dirty Snowball"