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The Solar System is home to many materials including (Planets, Moons, Stars, Galaxies, Nebula, The Universe, a Solar System, the Kuiper Belt, the Oort Cloud, planetesimals, Trans-Neptunian Objects, Comets, Asteroid, a Meteor) including (Meteoroid and Meteorite).
Planets: A planet is mass that is or almost round, that orbits around the sun. It is not a satellite or a moon that orbits another object, it’s the object that gets orbited.There are eight planets that orbit the sun. These planets have formed from smaller rock like matter called planetesimals.
Moons: The moon is seen in the night sky in reason of the light is reflected from the sun. Every 27 days the moon takes its journey around the sun where is goes through the cycles of a new moon, …show more content…

The universe contains a large amount of galaxies 10 billion light years across. In the universe there are multiple galaxies stretched across it.
Solar System:The solar system has a collection of nebulas along with multiple planets,moons, stars,comets, meteoroids and asteroids. There are eight main planets in our solar system with a moon or many moons orbiting it. There are other planets in the solar system that are smaller and they’re called dwarf planets, they also have moons in their orbit. They’re stars being formed by nebulas everyday in this solar system along with comets, meteoroids and asteroids charging around, blasting into planets at high speeds.
Asteroid: A small rocky mass that orbits around the sun in the asteroid belt, which is located between the planets Mars and Jupiter. These asteroids mostly stay in this region, but some fly off their track and hit our moon and sometimes even Earth where they enter our atmosphere as a meteor.
Meteor: This is a little rocky body that was once an asteroid. Asteroids are turned into Meteors when they enter Earth’s atmosphere. They’re not much different then …show more content…

It was either a piece that survived and flew off during the impact or was the actually Meteor. Anything that you find on the ground that was part of a meteor is called a meteorite.
Comets: A Comet is similar to an asteroid, meteor or meteorite, but is also the opposite. The bodies listed above are made up of rocks and metal, while a comet is made up of ice and dust. The other bodies are located closer to the Sun, around Earth and Mars, while a Comet is much farther away from the Sun and is located in the Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt, which are past the planet Pluto.
Kuiper Belt: This is another region in the solar system, but this one is located far past Neptune's orbit. Scientist believe that there are comets, asteroids and small pieces of icy rocks that circle on this disk shaped region. There are also, to be believed that there has been orbital periods of less than 200 years or comets.
Oort Cloud: Here is something similar to the Kuiper Belt. The Oort Cloud is another region that is believed to have billions of Comets circling in its orbit unless ift is pulled into the orbit of a passing star. This region is located in the same area as the Kuiper Belt, which is past the orbit of the Dwarf planet

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