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the leftover crumbs from worlds that never quite finished building themselves, or got smashed after.
means debris, dwarf planets, and fragments left over from planet formation or from collisions that tore a planet apart.
from from planetary science tracking what the solar nebula did not fully assemble into the eight major planets 4.6 billion years ago, plus the aftermath of catastrophic impacts since.
asteroid belta planet that gravity never let form
cereslargest remnant, now classified a dwarf planet
saturn ringspossibly a shredded moon or comet
kuiper belticy remnants beyond neptune, home of pluto
for instance
ceres — 25 percent of asteroid belt mass, dwarf planet since 2006
vesta — second largest asteroid, visited by dawn spacecraft in 2011
pluto and charon — kuiper belt remnants, demoted from planet status in 2006
saturn ring particles — ice and rock chunks, some kilometers wide