asteroid - small, rocky space object; irregular shaped; most are located in the Asteroid Belt or Kuiper Belt, comet - frozen chunk of ice, gas and dust that regularly orbit the sun; its tail always faces AWAY from the sun, meteor - a meteroid that enters Earth's atmosphere; it heats up and glows (a streak of light in the sky); also called a "shooting star", meteorite - left over pieces of a meteor that did not completely burn up; these rocks land on Earth's surface, meteoroid - small pieces of rock or metal broken off from asteroids; found in space, asteroid belt - region betwen Mars and Jupiter; contains asteroids, meteroids and Ceres, Kuiper Belt - region or thick disk beyond Neptune that contains a large number of icy bodies, Oort Cloud - a huge sphere beyond the Kuiper Belt that surrounds the entire solar system; contains dust and comets,

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