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minor planet
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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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Emily Gipson, Age 8 Florida Asteroids are sometimes called minor planets.
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.
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.
 
 
 
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