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  • 1. ASTEROIDS
    2. DWARF PLANETS
    3. COMETS

    Unlike planets, they have not cleared the area in which they orbit

    Made up of rocks and metals

    They orbit the Sun in an area called belt

    They lose matter when they pass close to the Sun

    They can be from a few meters to several hundreds meters wide

    They form tails when they pass through the inner Solar System

    Spherical bodies

    Long-period ones, orbit the Sun in the Oort Cloud

    Eros, Pluto and Ceris are 3 of them

    Consist of rocks, ice and dust

    They are irregular in shape

    Their orbit has a different inclination compared to planets' orbit.

    Most of them orbit the Sun in an area between Mars and Jupiter

    Similar, but smaller than planets

    They have a centre called nucleus