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planetoid

[plan-i-toid] / ˈplæn ɪˌtɔɪd /


NOUN
satellite
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The study calculated how large a hollow planetoid could be without collapsing in on itself, and the likelihood of a primordial black hole passing through an object on Earth.

From Science Daily Dec. 2, 2024

It opens with two brothers, Cade and Tristan, running away from a gang on the planetoid Kyysring.

From The Verge Jan. 13, 2018

She later dies while giving birth to twins on an Outer Rim planetoid called Polis Massa.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 1, 2015

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft passed by the ice-and-rock planetoid and its entourage of five moons at 7:49 a.m.

From Reuters Jul. 14, 2015

My avatar needed a stronghold, and I didn’t want any neighbors, so I’d bought the cheapest planetoid I could find—this tiny barren asteroid in Sector Fourteen.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline




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