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    2021. Retrieved 17 August 2021. Schröder, Stefan E; Carsenty, Uri; Hauber, Ernst; Raymond, Carol; Russell, Christopher (May 2021). "The brittle boulders...
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  • Moon is a solid body which formed from an impact between Earth and a planetoid. Historically, it was theorized that the Moon originated when a rapidly-spinning...
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    however, much closer than the supposed distance of the Hills cloud. The planetoid discovered at a distance of about 13 billion kilometres (87 AU) from the...
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    identification of Ceres as a dwarf planet. His work on the motion of planetoids disturbed by large planets led to the introduction of the Gaussian gravitational...
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  • Mark E.; Neumann, Gregory A.; Phillips, Roger J.; Barnouin, Olivier S.; Ernst, Carolyn M.; Kahan, Daniel S.; et al. (September 2015). "The low-degree...
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    does not explain twinning, the low mass of Mars and Mercury, and the planetoid belts. Alfvén formulated the concept of frozen-in magnetic field lines...
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  • planet would orbit the Sun, will radiate. A spinning non-axisymmetric planetoid – say with a large bump or dimple on the equator – will radiate. A supernova...
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  • destroyed each other in a ratings war. The crew discover a small, automated planetoid that is still producing TV programs. Stan is captured on the planet and...
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    inadvertently both return to the same one. In Edgar Wallace's 1929 novel Planetoid 127, both individuals and events are identical between the two worlds...
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    human-habitable asteroids involve terraforming, as in Paul Ernst's 1931 short story "The Planetoid of Peril" and Jack Vance's 1947 short story "I'll Build...
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    story "Mythtic Mystery" where Scrooge McDuck's family discover a small planetoid hovering in Earth's lower atmosphere, inhabited by beings who were the...
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