moonlet
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of moonlet
Example Sentences
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New research shows the spacecraft's deliberate collision with the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in September 2022 also slightly changed the path of the entire asteroid system around the Sun.
From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026
"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
Before the impact, the moonlet took 11 hours and 55 minutes to circle its parent asteroid.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2022
Its target was Dimorphos, a small asteroid that is a moonlet of 65803 Didymos, a slightly larger asteroid half a mile wide.
From Salon • Sep. 27, 2022
A detachment of the Cadre would land on Charon, Planet Pluto's moonlet, and fuse and seal sections of the moonlet's surface and subsurface same as on Pluto.
From The Universe — or Nothing by Moldeven, Meyer
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