Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small natural or artificial satellite.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little moon: applied to the small bodies of which the rings of Saturn are composed.
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- noun astronomy a very small body orbiting a planet, often as part of a ring.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Lancer analysis net had stopped calling the moonlet by that name, but he refused to.
Across The Sea Of Suns Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1984
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Message Bearer was even now issuing its final direction to the nickel-and-iron residue of an icy moonlet.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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Tom sat up, grabbed a telescope, and tracked it on the moonlet.
Golden State 2010
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They were amazed to learn about the uncharted moonlet.
Golden State 2010
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The moonlet was growing bigger by the moment as the Star Spear raced toward it!
Golden State 2010
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The contorted moonlet dropped away, dwindled, vanished.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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The tiny moonlet, only a hundred miles in diameter, was so close to Jupiter that it spent much of its time eclipsed in the planet's enormous cone of shadow.
Tin 2010
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So near was the moment of collision that the ship almost grazed the hurtling moonlet.
Golden State 2010
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Though this could indicate many things, it began to seem more and more likely that the tiny moonlet was abandoned.
Tin 2010
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"If you stay in this path, we'll crash that moonlet when it comes back."
Golden State 2010
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