planetule

English

Etymology

planet + -ule

Noun

planetule (plural planetules)

  1. A little planet.
    • 1836, William Daniel Conybeare, An Elementary Course of Theological Lectures, in Three Parts
      At the surface of Mars, for instance, the gravity is only one third that at our own surface, at the moon one-sixth, and in the singular little planetules grouped between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, probably not more than one-twentieth.
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