planetoid
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The study calculated how large a hollow planetoid could be without collapsing in on itself, and the likelihood of a primordial black hole passing through an object on Earth.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024
It opens with two brothers, Cade and Tristan, running away from a gang on the planetoid Kyysring.
From The Verge ● Jan. 13, 2018
She later dies while giving birth to twins on an Outer Rim planetoid called Polis Massa.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2015
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft passed by the ice-and-rock planetoid and its entourage of five moons at 7:49 a.m.
From Reuters ● Jul. 14, 2015
My avatar needed a stronghold, and I didn’t want any neighbors, so I’d bought the cheapest planetoid I could find—this tiny barren asteroid in Sector Fourteen.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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