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    Minor planet (redirect from Planetoid)
    1841, and was considered a subcategory of 'planet' until 1932. The term planetoid has also been used, especially for larger, planetary objects such as those...
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  • Planetoid may refer to: A minor planet A dwarf planet An asteroid Planetoid (comics) Planetoids (video game) Planetoid 127, a novel by Edgar Wallace published...
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    Ceres (minor-planet designation: 1 Ceres) is a dwarf planet in the middle main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It was the first known...
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  • Look up Hades in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hades in the ancient Greek religion and myth, is the god of the dead and the king of the underworld,...
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    Eris (minor-planet designation: 136199 Eris) is the most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System. It is a trans-Neptunian object...
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    Pluto (redirect from Pluto (planetoid))
    Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest...
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  • Planetoid 127 is a novel by Edgar Wallace published in 1929. Planetoid 127 is a novel in which Professor Colson uses a device to communicate with Earth's...
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  • Double Planetoid is a wood engraving print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in 1949. Double Planetoid is printed in four colors from four...
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  • Planetoid is a comic first released in June 2012 by Image Comics, written and drawn by Ken Garing. The main character is Silas, a deserter turned space...
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    In planetary astronomy, a centaur is a small Solar System body that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune and crosses the orbits of one or more of...
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    4 Vesta (redirect from Vesta (planetoid))
    Vesta (minor-planet designation: 4 Vesta) is one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, with a mean diameter of 525 kilometres (326 mi). It was discovered...
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    Salacia (minor-planet designation: 120347 Salacia) is a large trans-Neptunian object in the Kuiper belt, approximately 850 km (530 mi) in diameter. It...
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    orbiting the Sun beyond the orbit of Neptune. Discovered in 2003, the planetoid's surface is one of the reddest known among Solar System bodies. Spectroscopy...
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  • Alpha, a planetoid that is home to the Federation's central library. A storm-like phenomenon moving at warp speed is also on course to the planetoid. The...
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  • after coming across a mysterious derelict spaceship on an uncharted planetoid, find themselves up against a deadly and aggressive extraterrestrial loose...
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    of negligible mass (the "planetoid") moves under the influence of two massive bodies. Having negligible mass, the planetoid exerts force on the two massive...
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    Makemake (minor-planet designation: 136472 Makemake) is a dwarf planet and the second-largest of what is known as the classical population of Kuiper belt...
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    Haumea (redirect from Haumea (planetoid))
    Rabinowitz, D. L. (2004). "Discovery of a candidate inner Oort cloud planetoid". The Astrophysical Journal. 617 (1): 645–649. arXiv:astro-ph/0404456...
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  • field appears in the shuttlecraft's path, and pulls it down to a nearby planetoid with an Earth-type atmosphere. All communications are blocked, and the...
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    19521 Chaos is a cubewano, a Kuiper-belt object not in resonance with any planet. Chaos was discovered in 1998 by the Deep Ecliptic Survey with Kitt Peak's...
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    Charon (/ˈkɛərɒn, -ən/ KAIR-on, -⁠ən or /ˈʃærən/ SHAIR-ən), or (134340) Pluto I, is the largest of the five known natural satellites of the dwarf planet...
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    471143 Dziewanna (provisional designation 2010 EK139) is a trans-Neptunian object in the scattered disc, orbiting the Sun in the outermost region of the...
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    20000 Varuna (provisional designation 2000 WR106) is a large trans-Neptunian object in the Kuiper belt. It was discovered in November 2000 by American...
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  • Earth, the commercial towing vehicle Nostromo is diverted to a desolate planetoid by a cryptic signal from a derelict alien spacecraft. Inside the alien...
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    from the original on 28 March 2009. Retrieved 25 March 2009. "Distant Planetoid". solarsystem.nasa.gov. NASA. Archived from the original on 19 October...
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    A planetoid plows onto the primordial Earth, example of impact event...
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    486958 Arrokoth (provisional designation 2014 MU69; formerly nicknamed Ultima Thule) is a trans-Neptunian object located in the Kuiper belt. Arrokoth became...
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  • James Head Scott Peters May 21, 1999 (1999-05-21) Deep space. A small planetoid. The site of an intergalactic summit between two warring worlds. Diplomats...
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    Golden Century Award, for his entire oeuvre Mulisch was honoured with a planetoid in his name on 12 October 2006 (see 10251 Mulisch) "Komische fragmenten...
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  • Asgard. In the finale, Thor and Loki summon Surtur to destroy the Asgard planetoid, in order to defeat Hela. Thor leads the Asgardian people on a spaceship...
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