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Definition of Moonlets
1. moonlet [n] - See also: moonlet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moonlets
Literary usage of Moonlets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Astronomy for Young Folks by Isabel Martin Lewis (1922)
"It is owing, therefore, to the attraction of the satellites of Saturn for the
moonlets that these gaps in the rings exist. As a result of the disturbances ..."
2. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1898)
"In harmony with the laws of celestial dynamics, the velocity of the moonlets
toward the central controlling mass would increase, and the energy ..."
3. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1905)
"... to a unit of space in the case of large moonlets than in the case of small,
and the temperatures caused by large moonlets would therefore be greater. ..."
4. Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical by Victoria Institute (Great Britain) (1905)
"... to a unit of space in the case of large moonlets than in the case of small,
and the temperatures caused by large moonlets would therefore be greater. ..."
5. From Nebula to Nebula: Or, The Dynamics of the Heavens, Containing a Broad by George Henry Lepper (1917)
"Since the course of these moonlets were parts of curved orbits with the moon at
their focus, they cannot justly be considered as straight lines. ..."
6. From Nebula to Nebula: Or, The Dynamics of the Heavens, Containing a Broad by George Henry Lepper (1919)
"Since the course of these moonlets were parts of curved orbits with the moon at
their focus, they cannot justly be considered as straight lines. ..."
7. From Nebula to Nebula: Or, The Dynamics of the Heavens, Containing a Broad by George Henry Lepper (1919)
"Since the course of these moonlets were parts of curved orbits with the moon at
their focus, they cannot justly be considered as straight lines. ..."
8. In Starry Realms by Robert Stawell Ball (1912)
"The little moonlets (if I may for the moment coin a word) which go to make up
the rings are, in the outer of the structures, so close together that they ..."
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