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  • n  any of numerous small celestial bodies that move around the sun

  • Professor Lacchini's glow is another recognized planetoid, a chunk of rock about 15 miles in diameter.
  • When a new planetoid (or what may be a new planetoid) is discovered, the report is immediately sent to the Astronomisches Recheninstitut in Berlin, whence the news is broadcast to .
  • But once we got beyond the nine worlds orbiting our own sun eight actually, now that Pluto's been busted down to planetoid we had no luck.
News & Articles

  • Meet Styx and Kerberos, Pluto's newly named moons
    SETI's best known for its search for sentient life in the cosmos, but when the Hubble space telescope found a pair of new moons orbiting Pluto (at SETI's behest), it decided to do some planetoid naming, too. Today, SETI announced those names: Styx and Kerberos. The institute didn't grant titles to the moons itself, however. Instead, it put the onus on the public to come up with the proper names ...
    July 2, 2013 - Engadget
Quotes

  • Patrick Moore in guardian.co.uk
    The astronomer Patrick Moore said: "They've made it far too complex. What is a dwarf planet? I agree that Pluto is not a planet, but why not just call it a Kuiper belt object or a large planetoid? In the end, I don't suppose it matters too much....

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