Usually means: Small celestial body orbiting Sun.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. minor planet: Merriam-Webster
  2. minor planet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. minor planet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. minor planet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. minor planet: Vocabulary.com
  6. minor planet: Wiktionary
  7. minor planet: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. minor planet: Dictionary.com
  9. Minor planet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. minor planet: Rhymezone
  11. minor planet: FreeDictionary.org
  12. minor planet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. minor planet: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. minor planet: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. minor planet: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Minor Planet: Extragalactic Astronomy

(Note: See minor_planets as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (minor planet)

noun:  (astronomy) An astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is not a planet or a comet.

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