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Asteroid strike the Jupiter Jupiter,? the most massive planet of the solar system. It is one of the brightest objects in the night sky; It takes nearly 12 Earth years to orbit the Sun, and it rotates once about every 10 hours, more than twice as fast as Earth; its colourful cloud bands can be seen with even a small telescope. an icy crust. Saturn Saturn is classified as a gas giant planet because the exterior is predominantly composed of gas and it lacks a definite surface, although it may have a solid core.[21] The rotation of the planet causes it to take the shape of an oblate spheroid; that is, it is flattened at the poles and bulges at the equator Uranus Neptune Trans-Neptunian Region Astronomers had long suspected that a band of icy material known as the Kuiper belt existed past the orbit of Neptune extending from about 30 to 55 times the distance of Earth to the sun, and from the last decade of the 20th century up to now, they have found more than a thousand of such objects. Scientists estimate the Kuiper belt is likely home to hundreds of thousands of icy bodies larger than 60 miles (100 km) wide, as well as an estimated trillion or more comets. Well past the Kuiper belt is the Oort cloud, which theoretically extends from 5,000 to 100,000 times the distance of Earth to the sun, and is home to up to two trillion icy bodies. Past that is the very edge of the solar system, the heliosphere[hi:li?sfi?], a vast, teardrop-shaped region of space containing electrically charged particles given off by the sun. Many astronomers think that the limit of the heliosphere, known as the heliopause [hi:li?p?:z], is about 9 billion miles (15 billion kilometers) from the sun. Comet Comets are often known as dirty snowballs, and consist mainly of ice and rock. When a comets orbit takes it close to the sun, some of the ice in its central nucleus turns into gas that shoots out of the comets sunlit side, which the solar wind carries outward to form into a long tail. Short-perio