After our solar system began to form, dust and gas combined into small bodies that formed the planets. What are these small bodies called?

As dust and gas clumped together in the early solar system, they formed small solid bodies called planetesimals. These bodies could collide and combine over time, helping build the planets. Dwarf planets and the terrestrial and gas giant planets are types of larger planetary bodies, not the early small building blocks.

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