Small bodies made up of ice, dust, and rock particles. The Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt may be filled with billions or even trillion of ..... (sometimes referred to as dirty snowballs

OVERVIEW OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM

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Small bodies made up of ice, dust, and rock particles. The Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt may be filled with billions or even trillion of ____ (sometimes referred to as “ dirty snowballs”

A	Meteoroids
B	Meteors
C	Asteroids
D	Comets

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Comets are cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock, and dust that orbit the Sun.

Detailed explanation-2: -Home of Comets Because the orbits of long-period comets are so extremely long, scientists suspect that the Oort Cloud is the source of most of those comets.

Detailed explanation-3: -Asteroids are rocky remnants from the formation of the solar system. They are not spherical and have differing compositions and histories.

Detailed explanation-4: -Oort Cloud News Asteroids, comets, Kuiper Belt Objects-all kinds of small bodies of rock, metal and ice are in constant motion as they orbit the Sun.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Kuiper belt is home to most of the objects that astronomers generally accept as dwarf planets: Orcus, Pluto, Haumea, Quaoar, and Makemake. Some of the Solar System’s moons, such as Neptune’s Triton and Saturn’s Phoebe, may have originated in the region.

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OVERVIEW OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM