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Ice dwarf



An ice dwarf is a planetary body that is larger than the nucleus of a normal comet and much icier than any asteroid. They are believed to be up to a few hundred kilometers across, and they are found mostly in the Oort Cloud and the Kuiper Belt in very large numbers.



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