Asteroids, Meteors and Comets Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• friction : this causes the light emitted by a meteor
• plane : comets in the kuiper belt circle the sun in the same _ as our planets
• coma : the part of a comet made of water vapor and other gases
• meteorite : a meteoroid that survives its passage through the earth's atmosphere and lands on the earth's surface
• belt : most asteroids are found in the asteroid _
• dwarf : pluto is a _ planet
• tail : the part of a comet made of gas and dust
• circular : comets in the oort cloud move in _ orbits around the sun
• oort cloud : longer period comets originate here in a region of the solar system far beyond the orbit of pluto
• kuiper belt : another belt in the solar system that lies out past the orbit of neptune
• ceres : largest asteroid on record
• crater : a bowl shaped depression with a raised rim formed by the impact of a meteorite
• asteroid : a rocky mass that orbits the sun
• shooting : meterors are commonly called _ stars
• jupiter : the asteroid is between the orbits of mars and _
• meteor : a meteoroid that burns and vaporizes upon entry into the earth's atmosphere
• moons : asteroids are smaller than _ , but larger than meteors
• comet : a celestial object made of ice and dust that orbits the sun
• nucleus : the part of a comet called a "dirty snowball"
• meteoroid : general term for a small particle from a comet