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PRONUNCIATION OF MINOR PLANET

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MINOR PLANET

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conjunction
determiner
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Minor planet is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MINOR PLANET MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Minor planet

A minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is neither a planet nor originally classified as a comet. Minor planets can be dwarf planets, asteroids, trojans, centaurs, Kuiper belt objects, and other trans-Neptunian objects. The orbits of 620,000 minor planets were archived at the Minor Planet Center by 2013. The first minor planet to be discovered was Ceres in 1801, though it was considered to be a planet for fifty years. The term "minor planet" has been used since the 19th century to describe these objects. The term planetoid has also been used, especially for larger objects such as those the International Astronomical Union has since 2006 called dwarf planets. Historically, the terms asteroid, minor planet, and planetoid have been more or less synonymous, but the issue has been complicated by the discovery of numerous minor planets beyond the orbit of Jupiter and especially Neptune that are not universally considered asteroids. Minor planets seen outgassing may receive a dual classification as a comet. Before 2006, the IAU had officially used the term minor planet.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MINOR PLANET

minor
minor arcana
minor axis
minor canon
minor key
minor league
minor mode
minor orders
minor premise
Minor Prophets
minor seventh
minor seventh chord
minor suit
minor term
Minorca
Minorcan
minoritaire
Minorite
minorities
minority

WORDS THAT END LIKE MINOR PLANET

carcanet
dwarf planet
elanet
exoplanet
extranet
extrasolar planet
giant planet
inferior planet
inner planet
intranet
Janet
major planet
Manet
outer planet
planet
protoplanet
Red Planet
superior planet
Thanet
the Red Planet

Synonyms and antonyms of minor planet in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «minor planet» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MINOR PLANET

Find out the translation of minor planet to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of minor planet from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «minor planet» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

小行星
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

planeta menor
570 millions of speakers

English

minor planet
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नाबालिग ग्रह
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كوكبا صغيرا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

малая планета
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

menor planeta
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ছোট গ্রহ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

planète mineure
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Planet kecil
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kleinplaneten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

小惑星
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

작은 행성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Planet cilik
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tiểu hành tinh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிறிய கிரகம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लहान ग्रह
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Küçük gezegen
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pianeta minore
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

minor Planet
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мала планета
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

planetă minor
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μικρές πλανήτη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

klein planeet
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mindre planet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

astero
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of minor planet

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MINOR PLANET»

The term «minor planet» is regularly used and occupies the 60.594 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MINOR PLANET» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about minor planet

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MINOR PLANET»

Discover the use of minor planet in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to minor planet and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dictionary of Minor Planet Names
This work is an abundant source of information for anyone interested in minor planets and who enjoys reading about the people and things minor planets commemorate.
Lutz D. Schmadel, 2012
2
Monkeys, Minor Planet, Average Star
A playful, intoxicating debut by a young poet dedicated to expanding the boundaries of lyric poetry
Gracie Leavitt, 2014
3
Dictionary of Minor Planet Names
In addition to being of practical value for identification purposes, this collection provides a most interesting historical insight into the work of those astronomers who over two centuries vested their affinities in a rich and colorful ...
Lutz Schmadel, 2003
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Minor Planet Circulars/minor Planets and Comets
M. P.C. 24421 1995 JAN. 16 The MINOR PLANET CIRCULARS/MINOR PLANETS AND COMETS are published, on behalf of Commission 20 of the International Astronomical Union, usually in batches- on the date of each full moon, by: Minor ...
‎1995
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A Minor Planet for You and Other Stories
Told with arresting candor, Leslie Greentree's short fiction creates the satisfying sense of discovering someone's long-kept secret, or the guilty pleasure of overhearing a scathing conversation.
Leslie Greentree, 2006
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Photometry of the Minor Planet 349 Dembowska
At the SFA Observatory we took images of the asteroid 349 Dembowska for two nights, September 16, 2006, and September 29, 2006.
Kovitanggoon Kittikul, 2007
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Lists of: Meanings of Minor Planet Names
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Source Wikipedia, 2013
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The growth of a planet
Now if instead of one meteoric stone or minor planet there are hundreds of them, moving at the beginning in all conceivable directions, then since they are all so small as not to influence one another, they will all move almost as if they were ...
Edwin Sharpe Grew, 1911
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The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the ...
... stars and a minor planet, or rather to interpolate the declination of a minor planet relative to two stars of comparison. A minor planet'presents precisely the appearance of a star, and it is impossible to conceive any personality which can ...
‎1906
10
Hunting and Imaging Comets
it both retains the permanent minor-planet number and receives a new periodic- comet number: (a) If the numbered “minor planet” has already received a name, the comet should inherit this name. (b) If the “minor planet” has not yet received a  ...
Martin Mobberley, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MINOR PLANET»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term minor planet is used in the context of the following news items.
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A Local Company's Mission to Advance Humanity (and Rake in …
In 2003, the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center dubbed a distant space rock 13609 Lewicki for his work on developing a ... «Seattle Weekly, Jul 15»
2
The Year of Pluto
... Oort Cloud based on Tony Dunn's Gravity Simulator point cloud data from the Harvard-Smithsonian Minor Planet Center and vector images. «Computer Graphics World, Jul 15»
3
Visit to a small planet
But after a while, scientists began to question Pluto's status as a full-fledged planet and began calling it things like “minor planet” or “dwarf ... «The Exponent Telegram, Jul 15»
4
Asteroid 2011 UW-158 Will Zoom Past Earth Sunday And It Contains …
The asteroid is called the 2011 UW-158 and is one of the three "potentially hazardous asteroids" identified by the Minor Planet Center, together ... «Tech Times, Jul 15»
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Jerry Greene celebrates America's love affair with bacon
Poor old and mistreated Pluto (the "minor planet," not the freaky Disney character)? Justin Bieber's behind? No, none of those. (For one reason ... «Orlando Sentinel, Jul 15»
6
Discoveries show Pluto deserves planethood
... of the International Astronomical Union to kick poor Pluto out of the community of planets; it was demoted on a technicality to a “minor planet”. «Financial Times, Jul 15»
7
Pixeldust Animates Journey to Pluto
... from the Harvard-Smithsonian Minor Planet Center and vector images,” explains CG supervisor Samar Shool. “The biggest challenge was to ... «Animation Magazine, Jul 15»
8
Editorial: Danger signs radiating from Iran nuclear deal
... USA, we have discovered the minor planet is not a plain ball of ice but a more complex and variegated world with snowfields, and fault lines ... «Courier Mail, Jul 15»
9
Should Pluto return to the planet club?
But the final nail in the coffin was the discovery of Eris, a trans-Neptunian object -- that is, a minor planet that orbits the sun at a greater average ... «CNET, Jul 15»
10
Milestones Of Innovation 10: First Close-Up Of A Planet
... a brief view of Jupiter's moon Io, is scheduled to capture the first close-up pictures from the distant minor planet Pluto and its flock of moons. «Xconomy, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Minor planet [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/minor-planet>. Apr 2024 ».
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