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The largest asteroid discovered by Guiseppe Piazzi
Ceres
Origin of short-period comets
Kuiper Belt
Origin of long-period comets
Oort Cloud
Region between Jupiter and Mars where most asteroids are located
Asteroid Belt
Space rock fragments collected on the ground
meteorites
3 main parts of a comet
coma, tail and nucleus
The central part of the comet made up of frozen gases, ice and dust
nucleus
part of a comet that always points away from the sun
tail
Kuiper Belt is located beyond _______.
Neptune
Asteroid belt is found between_____and_____.
Mars and Jupiter
Many streaks of light observed in the sky
meteor shower
Also known as dirty snowball
comet
Also known as planetoids
asteroids
