Belt or Cloud
- Asteroid belt is a reservoir of small bodies in our Solar System located between the orbit of Mars and Jupiter. It is a source of interplanetary dust.
- Edgeworth-Kuiper belt
- Öpik-Oort cloud / Hills Cloud, only the inner Oort cloud has a toroid-like shape. The outer Oort cloud is more spherical in shape.
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