Asteroids, Meteors, Comets Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST: meteor : a small body of matter from outer space that enters the earth's atmosphere, becoming incandescent as a result of friction and appearing as a streak of light, meteorite : a meteor that survives its passage through the earth's atmosphere such that part of it strikes the ground, kuiper belt : a region of the solar system beyond the orbit of neptune, believed to contain many comets, asteroids, and other small bodies made largely of ice, crater : a large, bowl-shaped cavity in the ground or on the surface of a planet or the moon, typically one caused by an explosion or the impact of a meteorite or other celestial body, asteroid belt : the region in space between the orbits of mars and jupiter, containing the greatest population of asteroids in our solar system, friction : the resistance that one surface or object encounters when moving over another, comet : comets are cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock, and dust that orbit the sun, comet's tail : the tail consists of gas and dust that can extend hundreds of millions of kilometers away from the coma, elliptical orbit : when an object moves around another object in an oval-shaped path, shooting star : a small, rapidly moving meteor burning up on entering the earth's atmosphere.