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A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets.

Of or pertaining to an asteroid, or to the asteroids.

The first discovered asteroid.

One of the asteroids.

One of the early discovered asteroids. Bird of June, the peacock.

The eighteenth asteroid.

A suffix or combining form meaning like, resembling, in the form of; as in anthropoid, asteroid, spheroid.

in silver goods, and somewhat in dentistry. It was so named in 1804 by Wollaston from the asteroid Pallas, which was discovered in 1802. Symbol Pd. Atomic weight, 106.2.

One of the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, descovered by M. de Gasparis in 1850.

A body resembling a planet; an asteroid.

it. The system comprises the major planets, with their satellites; the minor planets, or asteroids, and the comets; also, the meteorids, the matter that furnishes the zodiacal light, and the rings of Saturn. The satellites that revolve about the major planets are twenty-two in number, of which the Earth has one (see M…

An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807.

An asteroid discovered by Hind in 1850; -- called also Clio. Victoria cross, a bronze Maltese cross, awarded for valor to members of the British army or navy. It was first bestowed in 1857, at the close of the Crimean war. The recipients also have a pension of £10 a year. -- Victoria green. (Chem.) See Emerald green,…