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adjectiveshaped like a star
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nounany of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter)type of:
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- pluto a large asteroid that was once thought to be the farthest known planet from the sun; it has an elliptical orbit
- vesta the brightest asteroid but the fourth to be discovered
- ceres the largest asteroid and the first discovered
- chiron an asteroid discovered in 1977; it is unique in having an orbit lying mainly between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus
- pallas a large asteroid; the second asteroid to be discovered
- apollo asteroid an asteroid whose orbit crosses the Earth's orbit
- asteroid belt the region of interplanetary space between Mars and Jupiter where most asteroids are found
- asteroidal of or relating to or resembling an asteroid
- outer planet (astronomy) a major planet whose orbit is outside the asteroid belt (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto)