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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.

asteroid

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No references found			Upon further evaluation, those reports were forwarded to the Minor Planet Center at Harvard University, and eventually on to the Near-Earth Object Program operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at NASA. Mountain View College by Community College Week The following citation was published in Minor Planet Circular 65121: (7102) NEILBONE = 1936 NB Discovered on 1936 July 12 by C. Asteroid (7102) named for Neil Bone by Miles, Richard / Journal of the British Astronomical Association Based on its brightness, the asteroid seems to be between 20 and 50 metres across," said Timothy Spahr of the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center. Tunguska-sized asteroid buzzes past Earth by Asian News International			Minoan 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 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 League Football Association Minor League Football News minor leaguer Minor leagues Minor Leagues, Major Dreams 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 Center Minor Planet Electronic Circular Minor Planet Mailing List Minor Planet Research, Inc. Minor Planets 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

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