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You should be familiar with the following terms:
- solar nebula
- protoplanetary disk
- rocky planets
- gas giants
- ice giants
- Giuseppe Piazzi
- Ceres
- Gaspra
- Ida
- Dactyl
- asteroid
- asteroid belt
- dwarf planet
- trans-Neptunian object
- Haumea
- Quaoar
- Makemake
- Gonggong
- Eris
- Sedna
- orbital eccentricity
- Gerard Kuiper
- scattered disk
- Halley’s comet
- Jan Oort
- Oort cloud
- short-period comet
- long-period comet
- trojan
- comet nucleus
- coma
- dust tail
- gas tail
- meteoroid
- meteor
- meteorite
- tide
- tidal bulge
- spring tide
- neap tide
- synchronous rotation
- spin-orbit coupling