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What do you call rocks that don't orbit the sun?
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[QUOTE="Ratman, post: 5466641, member: 589994"] Comets and asteroids circling other stars are just comets and asteroids, though some people use redundant terms like 'exocomet'. There are plenty of stars with dust disks or asteroid belts visible as an excess of infrared radiation around the star, so it is certain that such objects exist. They are mostly too distant to be resolved by any planet-hunting techniques, though there are remarkable exceptions. In beta Pictoris system astronomers have counted ~500 individual comets: [URL]http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1432[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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