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noun - any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter)
adj - shaped like a star
Any of numerous small celestial bodies that revolve around the sun, with orbits lying chiefly between Mars and Jupiter and characteristic diameters between a few and several hundred kilometers.
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| Part of a belt |
| Sun circler |
| Miniplanet |
| Space rock |
| Minor planet |
| Ceres or Eros, e.g. |
| Icarus, e.g. |
| Body in a large belt |
| Vesta, Pallas or Hygiea |
| Part of a celestial belt |
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| In 1930 astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered not only Pluto but Shawna, a main-belt one of these |
| Sir William Herschel coined this word in 1802 writing, "They resemble small stars so much..." |
| They can be near-earth, Trojan, or main-belt |
| A 1991 photo of Gaspra taken by the Galileo probe was the first close-up of one of these minor planets |
| In January 1999 a spacecraft called "NEAR" is due to go into orbit around Eros, one of these objects |
| Vesta is the only one of these minor planets between the orbits of Mars & Jupiter visible to the naked eye |
| In 1801 Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the first known one of these heavenly objects & dubbed it Ceres |
| Hidalgo, one of these objects, reaches the orbit of Saturn, but most are confined to a belt between Mars & Jupiter |
| Flora, one of these "roid"s discovered in 1847, orbits the sun at an average distance of about 200 million miles |
| On Sept. 29, 2004 Toutatis, one of these, will be close enough to the Earth to be seen with binoculars |
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| a small rocky body orbiting the sun. Large numbers of these, ranging enormously in size, are found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, though some have more eccentric orbits. |
| relating to or denoting echinoderms of the class iAsteroideai. |
| any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter) |
| shaped like a star |
| one of many large rocks that circle the sun |
| an object like a very large rock that goes around the sun like a planet: |
| Astronomy Any of numerous small celestial bodies that revolve around the sun, with orbits lying chiefly between Mars and Jupiter and characteristic diameters between a few and several hundred kilometers. Also called minor planet, planetoid. |
| Zoology See starfish. |
| Star-shaped. |
| A small rocky body orbiting the sun. Large numbers of these, ranging enormously in size, are found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, though some have more eccentric orbits. |
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Asteroids are minor planets, especially those of the inner Solar System. The larger ones have also been called planetoids. These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disc of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet. As minor planets in the outer Solar System were discovered and found to have volatile-based surfaces that resemble those of comets, they were often distinguished from asteroids of the asteroid belt. In this article, the term "asteroid" refers to the minor planets of the inner Solar System including those co-orbital with Jupiter. * There are millions of asteroids, many thought to be the shattered remnants of planetesimals, bodies within the young Sun's solar nebula that never grew large enough to become planets. The large majority of known asteroids orbit in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, or are co-orbital with Jupiter (the Jupiter trojans). However, |