Vulcanoids · Near-Earth asteroids · Main belt · Jupiter Trojans · Centaurs · Damocloids · Comets · Trans-Neptunians (Kuiper belt • Scattered disc • Oort cloud) A Small Solar System Body (SSSB) is a term defined in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union to describe objects in the Solar System that are neither planets nor dwarf planets: [1] This encompasses: all minor planets apart from the dwarf planets, : the classical asteroids, (except for 1 Ceres, the...
Vulcanoids are hypothetical asteroids that may orbit in a dynamically stable zone between 0. ...
Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are asteroids whose orbits are close to Earths orbit. ...
For details on the physical properties of bodies in the asteroid belt see Asteroid and Main-belt comet. ...
Image of the Trojan asteroids in front of and behind Jupiter along its orbital path. ...
The centaurs are a class of icy planetoids that orbit the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune, named after the mythical race of centaurs. ...
Damocloids are asteroids such as 5335 Damocles and 1996 PW that have long-period highly eccentric orbits typical of periodic comets such as 1P/Halley, but without showing a cometary coma or tail. ...
Comet Hale-Bopp Comet McNaught as seen from Swifts Creek, Victoria, Australia on 23 January 2007 For other uses, see Comet (disambiguation). ...
A trans-Neptunian object (TNO) is any object in the solar system that orbits the sun at a greater distance on average than Neptune. ...
Artists rendering of the Kuiper Belt and hypothetical more distant Oort cloud. ...
The scattered disc (or scattered disk) is a distant region of our solar system, thinly populated by icy planetoids known as scattered disk objects (SDOs), a subset of the broader family of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). ...
This image is an artists rendering of the Oort cloud and the Kuiper Belt. ...
For other objects and regions, see Asteroid groups and families, Binary asteroids, Asteroid moons, meteoroids and the Solar System.
For a complete listing, see List of asteroids. See also Pronunciation of asteroid names and Meanings of asteroid names. 243 Ida and its moon Dactyl An asteroid moon is an asteroid that orbits another asteroid. ...
It has been suggested that micrometeoroid be merged into this article or section. ...
Major features of the Solar System (not to scale; from left to right): Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, the asteroid belt, the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth and its Moon, and Mars. ...
This is a list of numbered minor planets, nearly all of the asteroids, in sequential order. ...
This page alphabetically lists the first thousand asteroids to be numbered, which are mostly in the main belt. ...
This is a list of named asteroids, with links to the Wikipedia articles on the people, places, characters and concepts that they are named after. ...