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- The vast majority of the asteroids in our solar system can be found in the asteroid belt.
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- Asteroids look like solid rocks, but are actually “rock piles” held together by mutual gravity. Some even have their own moons, like this one.
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- A comet has two tails – one made up of melted ice and the other of ionized gas.
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- The nucleus of a comet reveals it to be a “dirty snowball.”
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- Pluto is just one of many objects that orbit the Sun in the Kuiper Belt.