moonlet
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of moonlet
Example Sentences
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The team derived the age of Selam, a "moonlet" circling the small asteroid Dinkinesh in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, based only on dynamics, or how the pair moves in space.
From Science Daily • May 2, 2024
"The particles in the ring are colliding all the time, and if these collisions are elastic, it means the particles can't stick together to form a moonlet."
From Scientific American • Feb. 11, 2023
Discovered in 1996, Didymos is spinning so fast that scientists believe it flung off material that eventually formed a moonlet.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2022
Once it arrives, it will literally ram into Didymos' smaller asteroid moonlet, Dimorphos, in an attempt to change its orbital path.
From Salon • Jan. 2, 2022
I got off the moonlet myself then, got up to more than a mile above it where I was free of its feeble gravity.
From Shipwreck in the Sky by Binder, Eando
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