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Kuiper belt Object (KBO) - A small body made of ice and rock that orbits beyond Neptune's orbit, in the Kuiper Belt. Exoplanet - a planet that orbits a star outside the solar system dwarf planet - Pluto (has 5 moons in KBO) Eris (has 5 moons) Ceres (in asteroid belt) asteroid belt - the region of the solar system between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, where many asteroids are found Kuiper belt - A region of the solar system that is just beyond the orbit of Neptune and that contains small bodies made mostly of ice Scattered disk - Composed of ice balls from sent from Neptune into highly-tilted orbits, it overlaps the Kuiper belt on its inner edge and extend 150 km from the Sun. It had short period comets. Oort cloud - A spherical region of comets that surrounds the solar system terrestrial planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars gas giants - Jupiter, Saturn Ice Giants - Uranus and Neptune uncompressed density - the density a planet would have if its gravity did not compress itplanetesimals - Small planetary objects that form through the action of gravity during the birth of a solar system