Definition of asteroid

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Asteroid (n.) A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets.

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Asteroid :: Asteroid (n.) A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets.
Vesta :: Vesta (n.) An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807..
#NAME? :: -oid () A suffix or combining form meaning like, resembling, in the form of; as in anthropoid, asteroid, spheroid..
Partenope :: Partenope (n.) One of the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, descovered by M. de Gasparis in 1850..
Victoria :: Victoria (n.) An asteroid discovered by Hind in 1850; -- called also Clio.
Calliope :: Calliope (n.) One of the asteroids. See Solar.
June :: June (n.) One of the early discovered asteroids.
Isis :: Isis (n.) One of the asteroids.
Planetoid :: Planetoid (n.) A body resembling a planet; an asteroid.
Melpomene :: Melpomene (n.) The eighteenth asteroid.
Ceres :: Ceres (n.) The first discovered asteroid.
Asteroidal :: Asteroidal (a.) Of or pertaining to an asteroid, or to the asteroids..
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