The smaller Bodies - created from Mind Map

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1.Dwarf Planets

Smaller bodies that orbit around the sun

3.Ceres

2.Pluto

4.Eris

is Texas sized

Is found in the asteroid belt

2.Charon

is found outside of Neptune

5. Kuiper Belt Object

a very large moon that belongs to Pluto

6.Comet

include Pluto, Hamua, and Makemake

11.Asteroids

12.Meteroids

ice, rock, and dust bodies

7. comet nucleus

8. 2 comet tails

9.Comets comma

10. oort cloud

solid rock and dust

part of the head of the comet

dust tail

Gas tail

is part of the head of the comet

gas formed around the nucleus

Distant

comets may come from here

rocky bodies

between Neptune and Jupiter

meteors

a sand boulder

a streak of light from the meteroids

takes 16 earth days to orbit

is in the asteroid belt