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minor planet: see asteroid asteroid, planetoid, or minor planet, small body orbiting the sun. More than 10,000 asteroids have orbits sufficiently well known to have been cataloged and named; thousands more exist.
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minor planet [′mīn·ər ′plan·ət]

(astronomy)

Those planets smaller than the earth, specifically Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Pluto.

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No references found			Emily Gipson, Age 8 Florida Asteroids are sometimes called minor planets. Asteroids and meteors by Myers, Jack / Highlights for Children Prof Stephenson said: "Unlike some minor planets, Fristephenson does not cross the Earth's orbit, so it presents no danger to us here on Earth. `I was always fascinated by stars ( now I'm among them' by The Journal (Newcastle, England) But that's not the way many interpreted his proposal last year that this icy orb, discovered in 1930, belongs in a catalog of objects known as the minor planets. Much ado about Pluto by R.C. / Science News			Minoan architecture Minoan civilization Minoan Culture Minoan Writing Minogue Minoka-Hill, Lillie Rose Minor minor arc minor axis minor bend minor change minor control change minor control data minor cycle minor defect minor diameter minor diatonic scale minor fog signal Minor Intrusions minor key minor light minor lobe minor loop Minor Offense minor planet Minor Planets minor relay station minor surgery minor switch minor trough Minor, Lazar Minor, Lazar Solomonovich Minor, Robert Minorat Minorca minority minority carrier minority emitter Minority Movement Minority Peoples of the North Minors Minorskii, Vladimir Minorskii, Vladimir Fedorovich Minoru Yamasaki Minos Minot Minot, George Minot, George R. Minot, George Richards Minot, Laurence Minotaur			minor light minor lobe minor loop Minor Machine Pitch Minor Maintenance Order Minor Metals Trade Association Minor Military Construction, Army Minor minerals-in metalloproteins Minor minerals-in metalloproteins Minor minerals-in metalloproteins Minor minorem custodire non debet minor mode Minor Oaks Hockey Association Minor Offense minor officer of the law Minor Operated Department minor order Minor orders minor part minor party Minor Physical Anomaly minor planet minor planet minor planet Minor Planet Center Minor Planet Electronic Circular Minor Planet Mailing List Minor Planet Research, Inc. Minor Planets Minor Planets Circular Minor Plant Center Orbit Database minor point minor port minor premise minor premiss Minor prophet Minor Prophets Minor Recurrent Splenic Sequestration Crisis minor relay station minor renal calyx Minor Repairs Minor Requiring Authoritative Intervention minor role Minor Rule Violation Minor Rule Violation Plan minor salivary gland Minor Salivary Gland Biopsy Minor Salivary Gland Output minor salivary glands minor salivary glands minor salivary glands minor scale minor scale Minor Scale (explosion) Minor scales Minor second Minor second Minor second

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minor planet (redirected from Minor Planets)

minor planet
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