Across
- 5. Minor Planets that are not comets
- 6. A small particle from a comet or asteroid
- 7. An area in the Earth's upper atmosphere which absorbs many of the lethal radiations coming from space
- 10. Second planet closest to the sun
- 12. When our view of one object in the sky is blocked by either another object or the Earth's shadow
- 14. The distance which a ray of light would travel in one year. This is about 6,000,000,000,000 (6 trillion) miles.
- 15. The star that it is in the centre of the solar system
- 16. Second biggest planet, also a gas giant and is surrounded with icy rings
- 18. A group of stars, gas and dust held together by gravity
- 19. Described as the "Red Planet", named after the Roman God of war
Down
- 1. A cloud of gas and dust
- 2. Negative particle which orbits an atom
- 3. Biggest planet and is a gas giant
- 4. Scientists that study about space and astronomy
- 6. Smallest and closest planet to the Sun
- 8. The planet that can sustain living creatures
- 9. Icy small Solar System Body
- 11. A special kind of elongated circle. The orbits of the solar system planets form ellipses.
- 13. A dwarf planet that used to be a part of the solar system
- 17. Seventh planet from the sun