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Definition of Moonlet
1. Noun. (context: astronomy) a very small body orbiting a planet, often as part of a ring. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Moonlet
1. a small satellite [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moonlet
Literary usage of Moonlet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1905)
"Since the area of the moon's surface directly struck by the moonlet is a function
of the- square of the diameter of the moon- let, while the energy applied ..."
2. Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical by Victoria Institute (Great Britain) (1905)
"That particular moonlet which became the nucleus of the moon may therefore be
conceived as cold, or at least as sufficiently cool to be solid. ..."
3. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1898)
"The larger the moonlet, the larger and deeper would be the depression and the
... The smaller the moonlet, the shallower would be the crater's depth, ..."
4. From Nebula to Nebula: Being an Expansion of the Principle of Universal by George Henry Lepper (1912)
"Since that planet is considerably heavier than water, our moonlet will not float
in that liquid, so let us immerse it in mercury instead. ..."
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