planetule
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Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
planetule (plural planetules)
- 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.