The earth is a planet, and not a planetoid.
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Planetoid
Synonyms for "planetoid" (17 found)
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The group of small bodies that circle round the Sun, outside the orbit of Mars, are known under the designation of the planetoids.
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Numbering of the Planetoids or Asteroidal Planets.—In numbering the planetoids a difficulty has arisen [...]
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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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