What is asteroid belt,kuiper belt, oort cloud

sir,(1)it is true all false that the rocky asteroid are found primarily in the asteroid belt and kuiper belt while icy comets are found primarily in the oort cloud..???? and (2)what is asteroid belt ,kuiper belt and oort cloud????

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Rahul kumar

The Asteroid Belt, lies between Mars and Jupiter and consists of hundreds of thousands of rocks, with all kinds of different shapes, ranging in size from very large to very small (size of dust particles). The Kuiper Belt consists of Icy rocks, and it a major source of short-period Comets in the Solar system. Extending beyond the planet Neptune, Pluto was discovered to be one of the largest objects in the belt. Oort cloud is a collection of Comets, thought to extend far beyond the planets of the Solar System. Oort comets are distributed spherically about the Sun, possibly extending as far as half way to the next star. The Oort orbits are not regular or planar like the Asteroid and Kuiper belts, and are often perturbed through gravitational interactions during their long journeys on highly eccentric orbits.
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Sajan sarthak Best Answer

1.The asteroid belt is a region in the Solar System, located between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars, that is occupied by a great many solid, irregularly shaped bodies, of many sizes but much smaller than planets, called asteroids or minor planets. 2.Similar to the asteroid belt, the Kuiper Belt is a region of leftovers from the solar system's early history. Like asteroid belt, it has also been shaped by a giant planet, although it's more of a thick disk (like a donut) than a thin belt. The Kuiper Belt shouldn't be confused with the Oort Cloud, which is a much more distant region of icy, comet-like bodies that surrounds the solar system, including the Kuiper Belt. Both the Oort Cloud and the Kuiper Belt are thought to be sources of comets. 3.The Oort cloud , is a theoretical cloud of predominantly icy planetesimals proposed to surround the Sun at distances ranging from 2,000 to 200,000 au (0.03 to 3.2 light-years). It is divided into two regions: a disc-shaped inner Oort cloud (or Hills cloud) and a spherical outer Oort cloud.
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