Download UCI OBSERVATORY VISITOR NIGHTS Solar System Crossword

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Solar System Crossword Puzzle
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2. These beautiful features of Saturn are
made of small pieces of ice and dust
3. The largest planet in the Solar System
5. The Sun is like a leopard because it often
has these
10. Astronomers use the Hubble Space
____ to study planets
12. The Sun is not a planet, but is this
14. This planet could float in a (large!)
bathtub
17. We have sent many remote-controlled
robots to explore this red planet
This planet rotates on its side
Planets are made of either rock or ____
This is where astronauts work
This was a planet, but is a dwarf planet
now
8. This lies at the center of the Solar
System
9. These people fly into space on a shuttle
11. Neptune is cold because it is ____ from
the Sun
13. This is the second planet from the Sun
15. The moon looks different every night
because it goes through ____
16. These are dirty snowballs with long tails
17. The only other body in the Solar System
that humans have walked on is this
18. This is the smallest planet in the Solar
System
Answers are available at http://www.physics.uci.edu/~observat/sscrossword_answers.pdf
Image Credit: IAU / Martin Kornmesser