planetule

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

planet +‎ -ule

Noun[edit]

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.