Unlike the planets that occupy the Solar System, there is an abundant amount of smaller objects that travel throughout space. These objects are also known as comets and asteroids. Comets are mostly identified by the tails that follow behind it. Made up of dust and ionized gas, these tails are always pointing away from the direction of the sun. Although, comets located in the Kuiper belt and Oort cloud usually go undetected. Asteroids, on the other hand, do not posses tails; instead, they hold information about our solar system. Whenever these asteroids "fall" into Earth, they are classified as meteorites. There two types of meteorites, primitive and processed, both hold different properties that have helped humans. Primitive meteorites are
