The Solar System

• What is the Solar System?

  A set of planets, moons, dwarf planets, asteroids, and comets that orbit the sun
• What is the Asteroid Belt?

  A band of thousands of rocky asteroids and dwarf planets separating the inner rocky planets and the outer gaseous planets
• What's the difference between a planet and a moon?

  Planets orbit stars and moons orbit planets
• What is a dwarf planet?

  A body similar to a planet but too small to be considered one
• What is a comet?

  A body formed from ice and dust beyond the orbit of Neptune and have highly elliptical orbits