The Solar System

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Across
  1. 1. Takes 243 Earth days to rotate and has a thin toxic atmosphere
  2. 4. Become meteors when they enter Earth's atmosphere
  3. 5. Largest moon in the solar system, belongs to Jupiter
  4. 6. Closest planet to the sun
  5. 7. Cosmic snowballs, generally the size of Warrenton
  6. 8. 5 moons, no rings, rotates slowly, moons named afterm Roman mythological characters
  7. 11. Distance between the sun and the Earth
  8. 12. Has 3 layers:core, radioactive zone, and convective
  9. 13. A stream of energized,charged particles flowing outward from the sun
  10. 15. Looped-shaped eruption
  11. 17. Temperatures allow water to be naturally solid, water, and gas
  12. 18. Pluto was once this, Ceres is this type of planet
  13. 19. Has the largest volcano in our solar system, Phobos and Deimos are its moons
  14. 20. The "rays" of the sun's atmospheric layers, can reach up to 1 million degrees Celsius
  15. 22. Ice giant, 13 moons named after Greek mythological monsters
Down
  1. 2. 2nd Gas giant, has the most rings
  2. 3. Giant rocks from space that survives the passage from space
  3. 8. Lowest layer in the sun's atmospheric layer, 6000 degrees Celsius
  4. 9. Ring of icy rocks just outside the orbit of Neptune
  5. 10. Composition of a star, hydrogen and helium. Has storms for hundreds of years
  6. 12. Intense electromagnetic flare which causes radio interruption on Earth
  7. 14. 7th planet, has 2 rings that are vertical and 27 mooons
  8. 16. These become meteorites when they strike Earth's surface
  9. 21. Earthlings see this move across the sun when it rotates