What's the difference between planetary and planetoid?

Planetary


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the planets; as, planetary inhabitants; planetary motions; planetary year.
  • (a.) Consisting of planets; as, a planetary system.
  • (a.) Under the dominion or influence of a planet.
  • (a.) Caused by planets.
  • (a.) Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving; wandering.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The future of work will be made up of jobs that don’t yet exist within industries and using technologies that are new, in planetary conditions that no human being has ever experienced.
  • (2) The results indicate that polyamino acids could have been formed thermally under a variety of possible prebiotic atmospheres and on planetary bodies of low atmospheric pressure.
  • (3) "We just do not know how to recall a planetary-scale technology once it has been released.
  • (4) As a planetary geologist, the author has analyzed results of the various space missions.
  • (5) Catalytic properties of aluminosilicates may play a role in the synthesis of biological molecules from simple gaseous molecules commonly found in planetary atmospheres.
  • (6) Her declaration of planetary rights invests ecosystems with similar legal safeguards to those won by humans after the second world war.
  • (7) Consideration is given of the mechanism for the formation of some of the products and implications regarding planetary atmosphere chemistry, particularly that of Jupiter, are explored.
  • (8) Mathematical analysis of acceleration generated by the planetary motion of the apparatus revealed a unique centrifugal force field which promises high retention of the stationary phase in the multilayer coil to perform efficient preparative-scale counter-current chromatography.
  • (9) After all, two Phobos probes had failed in 1988, plans to launch Phobos-Grunt in 2009 were abandoned very late in the day and Russia has not launched its own planetary mission since 1996 when Mars-96 burnt up over the Pacific and South America after a rocket failure.
  • (10) Kevin is an astrobiologist and a planetary scientist by trade, and while his primary area of research is the Jovian moon Europa, currently all the excitement at JPL is focused on the red planet.
  • (11) We and many other civil society organisations have been much better at saying what is wrong with the current system than providing a positive new story about how we can flourish while living within planetary ecological limits.
  • (12) This calls for a new logic; abundance within planetary boundaries.
  • (13) In the lateral coil position the retention was found to be affected by the direction of the planetary motion and the head-tail elution mode.
  • (14) Peter Diamandis, founder of the XPrize and asteroid-mining company Planetary Resources, knows Elon Musk and SpaceX well.
  • (15) Past transformations that saw planetary temperatures soar took millions of years to occur.
  • (16) Each method has been shown to potentially reduce temperature on a planetary scale.
  • (17) I really have no other purpose than to make life interplanetary.” Bill Nye, chief executive officer of the Planetary Society and host of the popular TV show Bill Nye the Science Guy, was in the audience and described the energy of the crowd as “extraordinary”.
  • (18) "One important outcome of these rankings is the ability to compare exoplanets from best to worst candidates for life," said Abel Méndez, director of the planetary habitability laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico in Arecibo.
  • (19) What those numbers mean is that our economic system and our planetary system are now at war.
  • (20) The Mars500 project was designed to assess the reaction of the human mind and body to the stresses of a potential spaceflight to Earth's nearest planetary neighbour.

Planetoid


Definition:

  • (n.) A body resembling a planet; an asteroid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Of course, this could be a case of mistaken identity, or perhaps the First Order has constructed an ultimate weapon similar in scope and power to the great artificial planetoids from the original trilogy, though subtly different in nature.

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