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What (who) is minor planet - definition
Minor planet
ASTRONOMICAL OBJECT IN DIRECT ORBIT AROUND A STAR THAT IS NEITHER A PLANET NOR A COMET
Planetoid; Minor Planets; Minor planets; Planetoids; Minor-planet; Minor-planets
A minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun (or more broadly, any star with a planetary system) that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet. Before 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially used the term minor planet, but that year's meeting reclassified minor planets and comets into dwarf planets and small Solar System bodies (SSSBs).
minor planet
ASTRONOMICAL OBJECT IN DIRECT ORBIT AROUND A STAR THAT IS NEITHER A PLANET NOR A COMET
Planetoid; Minor Planets; Minor planets; Planetoids; Minor-planet; Minor-planets
¦ noun an asteroid.
planetoid
ASTRONOMICAL OBJECT IN DIRECT ORBIT AROUND A STAR THAT IS NEITHER A PLANET NOR A COMET
Planetoid; Minor Planets; Minor planets; Planetoids; Minor-planet; Minor-planets
¦ noun another term for asteroid.
Examples of use of minor planet
1. But recently some astronomers have campaigned to have Pluto downgraded to ‘minor planet‘ status.
2. It should be left as as a minor planet ‘permanently‘, he said.
3. In 1''' one group from the US Minor Planet Centre proposed that Pluto be given a new joint classification so that it would keep its position among the major planets, but also be given a designation as a minor planet.
4. "Life would be simpler if we went back to eight planets," said Brian Marsden, director of the astronomical union‘s Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
5. The Royal Astronomical Society recatalogued Ceres as Minor Planet No 1, and the then latest discovery of Thalia was No 23.