Multiple Choice
Which of the following statements about comets and asteroids is true?
A) Only asteroids collide with Earth.
B) Comets are balls of ice and dust.
C) Most of the trillions of comets in our solar system have tails.
D) All asteroids lie in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
E) There are about 1 million known asteroids in the solar system.
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