Across
- 3. Dark colored bands of gas on the gas giants.
- 4. When hydrogen is too hot to stay a liquid but under too much pressure to float freely as a gas.
- 6. The first planet from the sun.
- 8. A planet made mostly of gas and is very large in size.
- 10. Happens when the Earth passes through a comet's tail.
- 12. A region of the solar system beyond the orbit of of the last planet in the solar system.
- 14. The rock left behind after it crashes into earth.
- 15. The second planet from the sun.
- 19. The astronomical unit is a unit of length, roughly the distance from Earth to the Sun and approximately equal to 150 million kilometres.
- 23. Large objects made of dust and ice that orbit the Sun.
- 24. A planet that is made mostly of heavy elements.
- 25. A very steep bank or slope.
- 26. A navy blue colored planet, the 8th planet.
Down
- 1. The largest planet in our solar system.
- 2. A streak of light made when space debris enters the atmosphere.
- 5. A world that fails to meet standards of a normal planet.
- 7. The apparent backwards movement of an object.
- 9. A cyan colored planet, the 7th planet.
- 11. The measure of how non-circular the orbit of a body is.
- 13. A closed-plane curve that results from the intersection of a plane cutting through a cone.
- 16. The third planet from the sun.
- 17. A minute planet; a body that could or did come together with many others under gravitation to form a planet.
- 18. Space debris that enters the atmosphere.
- 20. The gas giant with the famous rings, sixth planet from the sun.
- 21. Forth planet from the sun.
- 22. Light colored bands of gas on the gas giants.
