Crossword-Solution: PLANETOID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Planetoid | n. | A body resembling a planet; an asteroid. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “PLANETOID”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Ceres, Pallas or Vesta | 1 answer |
| Eros or Ceres | 1 answer |
| Smallish celestial body | 1 answer |
| Traveler between Mars and Jupiter. | 1 answer |
| Ceres, for one | 2 answers |
| Small orbiter | 2 answers |
| BROTHER OF CERES | 10 answers |
| BROTHER OF VESTA | 10 answers |
| CERES EQUIVALENT | 10 answers |
| CERES LOCALE | 10 answers |
| Ceres Greek name | 10 answers |
| BIRTHPLACE CERES | 10 answers |
| Ceres father | 11 answers |
| Asteroid ___ | 18 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ACEMZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PLANETOID (5)
Roumann hurried into the pilot house, gave a quick glance at the indicator, and exclaimed: "We are nearing a planetoid, or, as some call them, an asteroid!" "Is there any danger?" asked Mark.
The middle region between Jupiter and Mars yielded the little planetoid Ceres in 1801, Pallas in 1802, and one hundred and ninety others since.
The body discovered answered so little to the hopes of the astronomical fraternity that they immediately said within themselves: "This is not he; we seek another." So they continued the search, and in a little more than a year Olbers himself was rewarded with the discovery of the second of the planetoid group.
Rings of laser arrays along the edge of the Extractor's hopper flashed alive and focused their beams on a large, slowly tumbling planetoid hundreds of kilometers across its minor dimension.
Sensors, analyzers, siphons and beam-guides paralleled the lasers' signals along an incandescent column of plasma from the dissolving planetoid into the Extractor's processes and, when ready, into the hopper.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, WP, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1956–2017).