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You should be familiar with the following terms:
- Bayeux tapestry
- William the Conqueror
- King Harold
- Battle of Hastings
- trans-Neptunian object
- Kuiper belt
- scattered disk
- small Solar System body
- asteroid
- minor planet
- comet
- near-Earth object
- trojan
- Kirkwood gaps
- Hilda asteroid
- Lagrange point
- Hungaria asteroid
- Ceres
- Vesta
- chemical differentiation
- radioactive decay
- Aluminum-26
- asteroid family
- planetesimals
- protoplanet
- planetary embryo
- metallic meteorite
- Eros
- stony asteroid
- carbonaceous asteroid
- metallic asteroid
- rubble-pile asteroid
- potentially hazardous asteroid
- Bennu
- Psyche
- primitive meteorite
- carbonaceous chondrite
- chondrule
- calcium and aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs)
- Allende meteorite
- amino acid
- apparition
- comet nucleus
- coma
- dust tail
- gas tail (or ion tail)
- radiation pressure
- Comet Halley
- periodic comet
- long-period comet
- Oort cloud
- sungrazing comet
- Halley-type comet
- Jupiter-family comet
- Encke-type comet
- Shoemaker-Levy 9
- meteor shower
- meteor storm
- centaurs
- main-belt comet
- active asteroid
- interstellar comet or asteroid
- Tunguska event
- Chelyabisk fireball
- fusion crust
- Chicxulub crater