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
"We've got to find some way of stopping that moonlet forming that far out," Dhillon said.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 11, 2023
Monday’s target: a 525-foot asteroid named Dimorphos, a moonlet of Didymos, a fast-spinning asteroid five times bigger.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2022
It’s actually a moonlet of Didymos, Greek for twin, a fast-spinning asteroid five times bigger that flung off the material that formed the junior partner.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 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 Eando Binder
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