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Moonlet

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Moonlet

A moonlet, minor moon, minor natural satellite or minor satellite is a particularly small natural satellite orbiting a planet, dwarf planet or other minor planet. Three different types of small moons have been called moonlets:

  • A belt of objects embedded in a planetary ring, as in Saturn's A Ring or S/2009 S 1 in the B Ring ("propeller" moonlets) or in Saturn's F Ring.
  • Occasionally asteroid moons, such as the moons of 87 Sylvia.
  • Subsatellites.

    • References

    Moonlet Wikipedia
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