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Keywords: asteroid, celestial, jupiter, mars, orbits

A body resembling a planet; an asteroid.

A very small planet. The larger asteroids are sometimes called planetoids.

see Asteroid

Keywords: planetology, planetquake

Planetology PlanetQuake

Keywords: kilometres, solar, hundreds, tens, kilometers

Solar-system body; tens to hundreds of kilometers in size.

A solar-system body of the order of tens to hundreds of kilometres in size.

Keywords: object, small

an object that is too small to be a planet