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Definition of moonlet in English: moonletnoun ˈmuːnlətˈmo͞onlət 1A small moon. Example sentencesExamples - The international team found signs of four such moonlets in one small segment of Saturn's brightest ring, called the A ring.
- In 1856 the British astronomer James Clerk Maxwell refined that hypothesis, arriving at an interpretation more in keeping with the satellite pattern elsewhere evident in the solar system: not millions of rings but millions of moonlets.
- Essentially, rings are just thousands of tiny moonlets that orbit a planet and don't clump back into larger objects.
- Both were rocks, the outermost with two moonlets and a small cloud of large asteroids, the innermost with none.
- The moonlets range from 32 km to just six kilometres in diameter, the team said in the British weekly, Nature.
- It's unlikely that moonlets this large were formed through gradual buildup of space material.
- ‘The interiors of the tiny moonlets, which have been shielded from contamination by the continual collisions with each other, are the source of purer water ice,’ he said.
- For instance, the new moonlet might be quite porous, like an orbiting icy rubble pile. Other moons near the outer edge of Saturn's rings - like Atlas, Prometheus and Pandora - are also porous.
- In fact, little moonlets may constantly form and be broken apart.
- 1.1 An artificial satellite.
Definition of moonlet in US English: moonletnounˈmo͞onlət 1A small moon. Example sentencesExamples - The international team found signs of four such moonlets in one small segment of Saturn's brightest ring, called the A ring.
- In fact, little moonlets may constantly form and be broken apart.
- It's unlikely that moonlets this large were formed through gradual buildup of space material.
- In 1856 the British astronomer James Clerk Maxwell refined that hypothesis, arriving at an interpretation more in keeping with the satellite pattern elsewhere evident in the solar system: not millions of rings but millions of moonlets.
- For instance, the new moonlet might be quite porous, like an orbiting icy rubble pile. Other moons near the outer edge of Saturn's rings - like Atlas, Prometheus and Pandora - are also porous.
- The moonlets range from 32 km to just six kilometres in diameter, the team said in the British weekly, Nature.
- Both were rocks, the outermost with two moonlets and a small cloud of large asteroids, the innermost with none.
- Essentially, rings are just thousands of tiny moonlets that orbit a planet and don't clump back into larger objects.
- ‘The interiors of the tiny moonlets, which have been shielded from contamination by the continual collisions with each other, are the source of purer water ice,’ he said.
- 1.1 An artificial satellite.
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