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Orbit: Located in the asteroid belt; Period: 4.6 years; Notable: It's the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt and classified as a dwarf planet.

Orbit: Near-Earth asteroid, Mars-crosser; Period: 1.76 years; Last visit: Its closest approach was in 1975; Notable: First asteroid to be orbited by a spacecraft (NEAR Shoemaker).

Orbit details: Disintegrated and no longer exists in a singular form; Last visit: Last observed in 1994 when it collided with Jupiter; Notable facts: Its collision with Jupiter provided the first direct observation of an extraterrestrial collision of Solar System objects.

Orbit: Near-Earth asteroid; Period: 1.3 years; Notable facts: Japan's Hayabusa2 mission returned samples from this asteroid back to Earth in 2020.

Orbit: Jupiter-family comet; Period: 6.45 years; Last visit: Last perihelion in 2015; Notable facts: Rosetta spacecraft made the first successful landing on a comet's surface on this comet.

Orbit: Located in the asteroid belt; Period: 4.84 years; Notable facts: It was the first asteroid discovered to have its own moon (Dactyl).

Orbit: Long-period comet; Period: Approximately 600 years; Last visit: 2011; Notable facts: Survived a close passage to the Sun and was visible to the naked eye.

Orbit: Near-Earth asteroid; Period: 1.2 years; Notable facts: NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission collected samples from this asteroid in 2020.

Orbit: Highly elliptical; Period: roughly 2,533 years; Last visit: 1997; Notable: One of the brightest comets seen for many generations, observable with the naked eye for a record 18 months.

Orbit: Resides in the asteroid belt; Period: 3.63 years; Notable facts: Bright enough to be visible to the naked eye and was visited by NASA's Dawn spacecraft.

Orbit: Near-Earth asteroid; Period: 1.52 years; Notable facts: First asteroid to have samples returned from it by the Japanese Hayabusa mission.

Orbit: Jupiter-family comet; Period: 6.45 years; Last visit: Reached perihelion in 2015; Notable facts: The ESA's Rosetta mission successfully deployed the Philae lander on this comet.

Orbit: Near-Earth asteroid; Period: 0.89 years; Notable facts: Initially considered a significant impact threat, future predictions now rule out a collision for at least a century.

Orbit: Highly elliptical; Period: 75-76 years; Last visit: 1986; Notable: It's the only short-period comet that is clearly visible to the naked eye from Earth.