UNIVERSE
COMETS
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Question
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Comets
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Meteors
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Asteroids
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Both the Oort Cloud and the Kuiper Belt are thought to be sources of comets.
Detailed explanation-2: -Pluto, Eris, Haumea and Quaoar are all Kuiper Belt objects that have moons.
Detailed explanation-3: -Meteoroids are even found on the edge of the solar system, in regions called the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud. Different meteoroids travel around the sun at different speeds and in different orbits. The fastest meteoroids travel through the solar system at a speed of around 42 kilometers (26 miles) per second.
Detailed explanation-4: -Small objects formed near the giant planets would have been ejected from the solar system by gravitational encounters. Those that didn’t escape entirely formed the distant Oort Cloud. Small objects that formed farther out had no such interactions, and remained as the Kuiper Belt objects.