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 ====== Small Body Group ======
+[[https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA18456|{{ :worldgen:pcl:small_body.jpg?nolink |Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech}}]]
 Includes asteroids, planetesimals, comets and other objects smaller than a planet. They are generally not recorded on scout surveys, unless they are of particular strategic note.
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 ===== Cometary Class =====
-Bodies with an ice content in excess of 50%, and which can be in orbits which carry them relatively close to their sun, causing volatile depletion and outgassing.
+Bodies with an ice content in excess of 50%, and which can be in orbits which carry them relatively close to their sun, causing volatile depletion and outgassing. Those that remain in stable orbits far from the star are considered //passive//, whilst those whose orbits taken them into the inner system are //active//.
 ==== Passive Type ====