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Asteroids are rocky bodies primarily found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, while comets are icy bodies that originate from the Kuiper Belt or Oort Cloud, developing tails when approaching the Sun.

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Pluto is not considered a planet of the Sun. Once classified as the ninth planet, it was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union due to its small size and irregular orbit.

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 for his work on stellar evolution, particularly the Chandrasekhar Limit, which explains the mass limit for white dwarf stars.