It's not very big, but suddenly the planetoid is the talk of the solar system.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2004] Reference

But I kind of like the word "planetoid," because planetoid it means planet-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2004] Reference

But a planetoid is in a different class altogether.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spaceship Named McGuire] Reference

San Diego County, California: planetoid discovered?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2004] Reference

I'm unable to establish contact with the planetoid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lights Of Zetar] Reference

They stared at the ragged surface of the planetoid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold in the Sky] Reference

The discovery of a planetoid eight billion miles away.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2004] Reference

We have been unable to make contact with the planetoid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lights Of Zetar] Reference

Well, that's the feeling you get on a low-gee planetoid.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spaceship Named McGuire] Reference

"We are nearing a planetoid, or, as some call them, an asteroid!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Space to Mars Or the Longest Journey on Record] Reference

We have departed Vulcan for the neutral planetoid code-named Babel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journey To Babel] Reference

The tugs would be able to find the planetoid by following the beeps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anchorite] Reference

I had every executive on the planetoid jumping before I was through.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spaceship Named McGuire] Reference

The planetoid known as Sedna is more than 8 billion miles from the sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2004] Reference

And astronomers have never seen anything like the planetoid named Sedna.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2004] Reference

Miles 'giant black ship was half-covered by the curvature of the planetoid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Treachery in Outer Space] Reference

The possibility will be the planetoid will destroy this planet 200,000 to one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Odds Are] Reference

Roger glided the jet boat to a smooth stop on the night side of the planetoid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danger in Deep Space] Reference

So, astronomers have termed it a planetoid, and they've given it the name Sedna.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2004] Reference

O'BRIEN: What exactly is a planetoid as opposed to just an out - and-out planet?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2004] Reference

He moved silently and with assurance in the fractional-gee field of the planetoid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference

Radar pulses emanating from a presumably lifeless planetoid would be a dead giveaway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference

Then St. Simon launched himself out the open door toward the surface of the planetoid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anchorite] Reference

The drill began to sink into the surface, and the planetoid began to move ever so slowly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anchorite] Reference

For now they're calling it a planetoid; I think it's not quite big enough to be a planet.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2004] Reference

Dolph saw that the last prints were opposite another planetoid, so he flew across to that one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zombie Lover]

The boy, held prisoner for more than ten weeks on a small planetoid, was reported in good health.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference

On the surface of the planetoid, giant mushrooming clouds appeared climbing into the airless void.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danger in Deep Space] Reference

Our moon was formed as the result of a collision with a Mars-sized planetoid billions of years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Battlestar Galactica: Earth, And Why You Shouldn’t Believe The Rumor] Reference

She was certain that the natural leaders were equally disinterested in planetoid ecology, herfield.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eve's Rib]

When the stuff set, the anchor was locked securely to the sides of the shaft and thus to the planetoid itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anchorite] Reference

When you're carving an office and residence out of a nickel-iron planetoid, importing wood from Earth is a purely luxury matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spaceship Named McGuire] Reference

It dropped down to the surface of the small planetoid only ten meters from the hidden trapdoor that led to the airlock beneath the surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference