Small Bodies of the Solar System

Between the planets and the void, a multitude of rocks, ices, and dust keep telling the story of how the solar system formed.

Asteroids

The rocky debris of the main belt, between Mars and Jupiter, and the near-Earth asteroids.

Comets

Dirty snowballs from the Kuiper belt or the Oort cloud, with their coma and tail.

Meteorites

Meteoroid, meteor, meteorite: a space rock's journey down to the ground.

Meteor showers

Perseids, Geminids, Leonids... when Earth passes through the debris trail of a comet.