Microplanetoid

Quick meaning: Microplanetoid is a noun meaning (science fiction) An astronomical body smaller than a planetoid, such as an asteroid or planetesimal.

Meaning

(science fiction) An astronomical body smaller than a planetoid, such as an asteroid or planetesimal.

Example Sentences

Around three hundred meters long and a little less than half as wide, the new shape was much smaller than the microplanetoid configuration.

The loose group of rocks, sand, random molecules, and microplanetoids known as the Hallelujah node was traveling in company around the Sun at a speed of eleven miles per second.

I mean, the Fomalhauters weren't having enough problems with the repairs to their exhaust duct—their StarGrazer'd taken a hit from a rogue microplanetoid—then this earthbound yo-yo tries to put a goddam drift netter up their tailpipe.

Word Forms

• microplanetoids

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include micrometeoroid, micrometeor, meteoroid, minimoon, micrometeorite, microverse.

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