Asteroid, small, irregularly shaped rocky space object. Most are located in the Asteroid belt or Kuiper Belt, Comet, frozen chunk of ice, gas, and dust that regularly orbits the Sun, tail always faces AWAY from Sun, Meteor, when a meteoroid enters Earth's atmosphere it heats up and glows (streak of light in the sky). Also called a "shooting star"., Meteorite, left over pieces of a meteor that didn't completely burn up that REACH the Earth's surface., Comet's Tail, always points away from the sun, Asteroid Belt, located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter; contains around 2 million asteroids, 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., Oort Cloud, A spherical region of comets that surrounds the solar system, Meteoroid, small pieces of rock or metal in space

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