comet, Icy bodies made of ice, dust, frozen gases, and rock that orbit the Sun in long elliptical paths., Asteroid, Rocky or metallic objects that orbit the Sun. Most are located in the Asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. They do not produce glowing tail., Meteoroid, Much smaller rocky or metallic fragments. They usually come from broken asteroid or comets. They travel through outer space. Many are only pebble size, Meteor, The streak of light (shooting star) created when a meteoroid enters Earth’s atmosphere and vaporizes due to friction, Meteorite, Any part of a meteoroid that survives its fiery passage through Earth’s atmosphere and actually lands on the ground., Dwarf planet, Round or spherical celestial bodies that orbit the Sun and have enough mass for their own gravity to pull them into a ball shape. They have not cleared their orbital neighborhood of other debris.

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