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"Planetoid"
Keywords:
asteroid
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celestial
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jupiter
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mars
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orbits
Related Terms:
Asteroid
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Inferior planets
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Extrasolar planet
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Outer planets
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Solar system
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Planets
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Inner planets
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Superior planets
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Superior planet
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Asteroid belt
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Inferior planet
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Planet
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Comet
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Jovian planet
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Moon
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Kuiper belt
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Terrestrial planets
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Inferior conjunction
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Minor planet
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Apollo asteroid
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Heliocentric
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Oort cloud
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Terrestrial planet
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Asteroids
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Orbiter
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Comets
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Planetary
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Barycenter
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Heliopause
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Deferent
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Gas giants
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Occultation
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Libration
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Transit
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Elongation
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Centaur
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Cazimi
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Jovian
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Interplanetary space
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Syzygy
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Planetesimals
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Meteoroid
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Superior conjunction
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Kepler, johannes
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Halley's comet
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Dispositor
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Galileo
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Protoplanet
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Heliosphere
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Conjunction
A body resembling a planet; an asteroid.
ftp.uga.edu
A very small planet. The larger asteroids are sometimes called planetoids.
spacebuffs.com
see Asteroid
wro.org
any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter)
wordnet.princeton.edu
A large asteroid or other celestial body, also called a minor planet.
go-astronomy.com
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Keywords:
planetology
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planetquake
Planetology PlanetQuake
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Keywords:
kilometres
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solar
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hundreds
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tens
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kilometers
Solar-system body; tens to hundreds of kilometers in size.
www7.nationalacademies.org
A solar-system body of the order of tens to hundreds of kilometres in size.
snell-pym.org.uk
Keywords:
object
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small
an object that is too small to be a planet
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