Pluto

Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is the largest object in

the Kuiper belt, the tenth-most-massive known body directly orbiting the Sun, and
the second-most-massive known dwarf planet, after Eris. Like other Kuiper belt
objects, Pluto is primarily made of rock and ice, and relatively small, about 1/6
the mass of the Moon and 1/3 its volume. It has an eccentricand highly inclined
orbit that takes it from 30 to 49 AU (4.47.4 billion km) from the Sun. Hence Pluto
periodically comes closer to the Sun than Neptune, but an orbital resonance with
Neptune prevents the bodies from colliding. In 2014 it was 32.6 AU from the Sun.
Light from the Sun takes about 5.5 hours to reach Pluto at its average distance
(39.4 AU).

Asteroid
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Asteroids are minor planets, especially
those of the inner Solar System. The larger ones have also been
called planetoids. These terms have historically been applied to any
astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disc of a planet and
was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet, but as minor
planets in the outer Solar System were discovered, they were often distinguished
from traditional asteroids. Their volatile-based surfaces were found to resemble
comets. They are grouped with the outer bodiescentaurs, Neptune trojans,
and trans-Neptunian objectsas minor planets, which is the term preferred in
astronomical circles.

Meteor

A meteor or "shooting star" is the passage of

a meteoroid or micrometeoroid into the Earth's
atmosphere, incandescent from air friction and shedding glowing material in its
wake sufficiently to create a visible streak of light.Meteors typically occur in
the mesosphere at altitudes between 76 to 100 km (47 to 62 mi).The root
word meteor comes from the Greek meteros, meaning "high in the air
Millions of meteors occur in the Earth's atmosphere daily. Most meteoroids that
cause meteors are about the size of a grain of sand. Meteors may occur
in showers, which arise when the Earth passes through a stream of debris left by
a comet.