Asteroid in English
The asteroid refers to the small celestial bodies that circulate around the Sun in an orbit inside that of Neptune. Because they have a dimension smaller than that of a planet, they can also be called planetoids or smaller planets. The word comes from the Greek and is composed of ἀστηρ (aster), which means ‘star’, and ειδής (eidós), ‘form’, ‘appearance’, hence it is also […]
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