Moonlet
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
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Another moonlet named Bleriot
A moonlet named Santos-Dumont
A moonlet temporarily named S/2010 S 2
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)[1][2] or in Saturn's F Ring.[3]
- Occasionally for asteroid moons, such as the moons of 87 Sylvia.[4]
- Subsatellites.[5]
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