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Meanings of minor planet in English
Astronomical object in direct orbit around a star that is neither a planet nor a comet.
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Examples for "planetoid"
Examples for "planetoid"
1
The moon of COL 72 Prime II is basically a dead planetoid.
2
Fragments spun, flame jetted as gases burned away from the ruptured planetoid.
3
He moved silently and with assurance in the fractional-gee field of the planetoid.
4
The tugs would be able to find the planetoid by following the beeps.
5
Obie had given her the plans and schematics for the planetoid.
Usage of minor planet in English
1
This earth is but one minor planet of a minor system.
2
Each name was that of a minor planet in orbit around the sun.
3
They've got a revolving magnetic field out there that would spin a minor planet.
4
It happens to be a very important minor planet.
5
A minor planet is the same as an asteroid.
6
I loathe the enigmas, but I know they're smart enough to throw rocks at minor planet-sized targets.
7
It's the size and mass of a minor planet, Admiral, and its orbit is slaved to the jump point.
8
After ten hours they saw the huge Jupiter Equilateral orbit-ship looming up in the viewscreen like a minor planet.
9
The stony composition minor planet can be found in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
10
Either they completely turned a minor planet into a fortress and moved it here, or they built something that huge.
11
A very minor planet.
12
Command is on the minor planet Eros, which should be about three months away from here at the highest possible speed.
13
He and Willem said they were from Alarkand, a far-off minor planet that none of these people had ever heard of.
14
Orbiting the distant star and slaved to the jump point, the fortress was almost large enough to qualify as an artificial minor planet.
15
He was but a little earth parasite, sitting idle in the darkling day, trying to understand his infinitesimal functions on a minor planet.
16
They released a statement the next day at the Minor Planet Center.
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Translations for minor planet
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