Small Bodies in the Solar System

Estimated number of small objects in our solar system?

A round celestial body that orbits the sun without enough mass to clear its orbital path.

A bright streak of light that results when a meteoroid burns up in the Earth's atmosphere.

Begins just beyond the orbit of Neptune and contains small bodies made mostly of ice.

Any of the minor bodies in the Kuiper Belt.

Hard, rocky region of a comet.

Takes less than 200 years to orbit the sun.

Meteoroid that reaches the Earth's surface without burning up.

Gas that has been ionized, or stripped of electrons by the sun (comet).

May take up to hundreds of thousands of years to orbit the sun.

A small body of ice, rock, and dust that follows a highly elliptical orbit around the sun.

Asteroids located within the Asteroid Belt.

A spherical cloud of gas and dust that comes off of the nucleus. (comet)

A small, irregularly shaped, rocky object that orbits the sun.

A spherical region that surrounds the solar system and extends halfway to the nearest star.

A sand grain-to-boulder sized, rocky body that travels through space.

A 300 million kilometer region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.