Space Science

4. A line that forms when the sky and land collide.
8. The path a planet takes around the sun.
10. Planets that are inside of the asteroid belt.
12. Planet that intersected with another planet's orbit and is too small to be a planet but still orbits the sun.
13. An imaginary line that runs from the north pole to the south pole.
14. Small, rocky bodies that orbit, or travel around, the sun.
15. When meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere (or that of another planet, like Mars) at high speed and burn up.

1. An imaginary line that goes horizontally around the world.
2. The distance light travels in one year.
3. A group of stars that make a pattern.
5. A scientist who studies the objects in the sky, including planets, galaxies, black holes, and stars.
6. An object that orbits around the sun.
7. The amount of heat in something.
9. Occurs when one heavenly body such as a moon or planet moves into the shadow of another heavenly body such as the sun.
11. Natural, giant, glowing balls of gas.