The earth is a planet, and not a planetoid.
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Planetoid
Synonyms for "planetoid" (14 found)
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19 translations across 15 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 小行星 noun (any of several larger astral bodies)
French
1 entries- planétoïde noun (any of several larger astral bodies)
German
1 entries- Planetoid noun (any of several larger astral bodies)
Hindi
1 entries- क्षुद्रग्रह noun (any of several larger astral bodies)
Ido
1 entries- asteroido noun (any of several larger astral bodies)
Irish
1 entries- mionphláinéad noun (any of several larger astral bodies)
Italian
3 entries- asteroide noun (any of several larger astral bodies)
- pianetino noun (any of several larger astral bodies)
- planetoide noun (any of several larger astral bodies)
Japanese
1 entries- 小惑星 noun (any of several larger astral bodies)
Macedonian
2 entries- мала плане́та noun (any of several larger astral bodies)
- планетои́д noun (any of several larger astral bodies)
Manx
1 entries- planaideen noun (any of several larger astral bodies)
Polish
1 entries- planetoida noun (any of several larger astral bodies)
Portuguese
1 entries- planetoide noun (any of several larger astral bodies)
Romanian
1 entries- planetoid noun (any of several larger astral bodies)
Russian
2 entries- ма́лая плане́та noun (any of several larger astral bodies)
- плането́ид noun (any of several larger astral bodies)
Tagalog
1 entries- malabuntala noun (any of several larger astral bodies)
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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.
Source: wiktionary
Numbering of the Planetoids or Asteroidal Planets.—In numbering the planetoids a difficulty has arisen [...]
Source: wiktionary
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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