Comets are chunks of ice and dust that have long, elliptical orbits around the sun. They originate from two areas in the solar system - the Kuiper Belt just outside Neptune's orbit, and the distant Oort Cloud beyond Pluto. Comets are made up of three main parts: the icy nucleus, the coma of gas and dust surrounding the nucleus, and the tail which always points away from the sun. Asteroids are smaller rocky objects that reside mainly in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Meteors are streaks of light seen when meteoroid rocks from space burn up in Earth's atmosphere, and meteorites are meteoroids that survive entry and impact the surface.