planetoid in German

planetoid in German

What does "planetoid" mean?

1. noun An asteroid, whatever its size.
   "if one can argue for the early existence of a few largely molten planetoids with dimension of kilometers or tens of kilometers, one can quite as easily argue for very large numbers of such planetoids."
2. noun An asteroid-like body in an orbit beyond the asteroid belt, such as a centaur or Kuiper belt object
3. noun A bigger body that orbits the Sun like a planet, such as Vesta or a possible dwarf planet like Eris or Sedna.
4. noun Any object with the mass of a planet, including ordinary planets and moons.

planetoid in a sentence

• if one can argue for the early existence of a few largely molten planetoids with dimension of kilometers or tens of kilometers, one can quite as easily argue for very large numbers of such planetoids.

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