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UK
/plˈænɪtˌɔɪd/
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NOUN
- any of numerous small celestial bodies that move around the sun
How To Use planetoid In A Sentence
- The discovery of a small planetoid in the Kuiper belt, the distant disk of debris whose chunks eventually formed the solar system, make Pluto's chances of holding onto its status of bona fide planet weaker.
- It seemed like decades ago that he had begun the project as a hobby in between building planetoids for superstars. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
- I've heard a good astronomical theory that the moon was created by a planetoid crashing into the earth a long time ago, possibly carrying with it the seeds for life itself.
- BROWN: Actually, as it stands right now, I would say there only eight planets, because I would say Pluto really deserves to be called a planetoid, too. CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2004
- It's not very big, but suddenly the planetoid is the talk of the solar system. CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2004
- The Earth and Moon formed rather late in this process, from a collision between two large bodies - a mars-sized planetoid and a slightly larger body.
- The film is about the discussion of terraforming - taking planets and planetoids and balls of earth and trying to terraform, seed them with the possibilities of future life. Filmstalker: Ridley Scott talks Alien Prequel
- The geosphere or rocky Earth formed from collisions of planetoids.
- Opposite motion of Sun with inner planets toward arriving Nibiru causes projection, appearant changes, such shapes of that outdoor planets,' planetoids' orbits. 2012: NASA's Scientific Reality Check | Universe Today
- It is a well-known fact, that there exist between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars, what are called planetoids, about 500 in number, which are supposed to be the remnants of a broken or shattered world. Aether and Gravitation