Moonlet

The Lancer analysis net had stopped calling the moonlet by that name, but he refused to. ❋ Benford, Gregory, 1941- (1984)

The tiny moonlet, only a hundred miles in diameter, was so close to Jupiter that it spent much of its time eclipsed in the planet's enormous cone of shadow. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Tom sat up, grabbed a telescope, and tracked it on the moonlet. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Dead ahead in their orbit and speeding toward them was an unrecorded asteroid or moonlet! ❋ Unknown (2010)

The moonlet was growing bigger by the moment as the Star Spear raced toward it! ❋ Unknown (2010)

The contorted moonlet dropped away, dwindled, vanished. ❋ Jack Varnell (2010)

They were amazed to learn about the uncharted moonlet. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Message Bearer was even now issuing its final direction to the nickel-and-iron residue of an icy moonlet. ❋ Jack Varnell (2010)

So near was the moment of collision that the ship almost grazed the hurtling moonlet. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Though this could indicate many things, it began to seem more and more likely that the tiny moonlet was abandoned. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"If you stay in this path, we'll crash that moonlet when it comes back." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows how the "streamers" detected in the rings of Saturn are being created by the small moonlet known as Prometheus. ❋ Fred Kiesche (2009)

Cassini finds 'missing link' moonlet evidence in Saturn's rings ❋ Unknown (2006)

That improvised moonlet made one of the most important discoveries in space science to this day: It found the what became known as Van Allen radiation belts, which encircle the globe from pole to pole. ❋ Peter D. Zimmerman (2007)

When they focused their sensors on the microwave source they saw a moonlet sixty-three kilometres long with what looked like wings of hazy pearl light. ❋ Hamilton, Peter F. (2007)

Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said one possibility for the oxygen burst could be that a small moon-like object crashed into something else, obliterating the moonlet and leaving behind a fine mist of ice particles. ❋ Unknown (2004)

No one can confirm the crashing moonlet theory, since no one has seen one crashing. ❋ Unknown (2004)