Examples of 'minor planets' in a sentence

Meaning of "minor planets"

In astronomy, 'minor planets' are celestial objects that orbit the Sun and are smaller than planets but larger than meteoroids. They are also known as 'asteroids' and can be found primarily in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter
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List of minor planets named after rivers.
He is a prolific observer and discoverer of minor planets.
Minor planets named for literary characters.
They are sometimes referred to as planetoids or minor planets.
This is a list of named minor planets in numerical order.
His special interest was the astrometry of minor planets.
A list of currently named minor planets is available here.
Some asteroids are so large they are considered minor planets.
He discovered several minor planets and made observations on comets.
They can be considered as minor planets.
List of minor planets targeted for future spacecraft visitation.
The total number of minor planets small.
Minor planets are awarded an official number once their orbits are confirmed.
Name conflicts with minor planets.
Distant minor planets sidebar.

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The physical properties of minor planets.
This makes retrograde minor planets the rarest group of all.
Tomyris is the name given to one of the minor planets.
This is a list of minor planets named after animals and plants.
He is also a discoverer of minor planets.
Only a small number of minor planets have been visited by spacecraft.
He was an ardent observer of minor planets.
Trojan minor planets.
The observatory conducts research on comets and minor planets.
One of the minor planets.
It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets.
List of named minor planets.
His astronomical work includes astrometry and photometry of minor planets.
The following table lists minor planets that are planned to be visited by spacecraft.
There are eight major planets and many minor planets.
They are also known as minor planets or planetoids due to their small size.
It is mainly used for astrometric observations of comets and minor planets.
Irregular moons are probably minor planets that have been captured from surrounding space.
It is occupied by billions of irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets.
List of notable minor planets.
Amateurs can make occultation measurements that are used to refine the orbits of minor planets.
Discoverers of minor planets.
But some of the largest asteroids are really more correctly thought of as minor planets.
There is only a small number of minor planets formerly targeted for spacecraft visitation.
Those objects under that mass limit would become minor planets.
He extensively studied minor planets and comets and is credited with having discovered four asteroids.
Graham began systematic observations of minor planets on the meridian.
See List of minor planets for a list of all such partial lists.
List of unnumbered minor planets.
This includes the icy minor planets known as centaurs and the Neptune trojans.
List of missions to minor planets.
There are no minor planets in the Cardassian Union.
This is an overview of all existing partial lists of numbered minor planets LoMP.
This encompasses all comets and all minor planets other than those that are dwarf planets.
The trio are credited with the discovery of several thousand minor planets.

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