Other areas of the Solar System also encompass small bodies in smaller concentrations. These include the near-Earth asteroids, centaurs, comets, and scattered disc objects.OverviewA small Solar System body (SSSB) is an object in the that is neither a , a , nor a . The term was first by the (IAU) as follows: "Al. .
The current definition was included in the 2006 IAU resolution that defined the term , demoting the status of to that of . In the context, it should be interpreted as, "All objects other than planets an. .
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