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A suffix or combining form meaning like, resembling, in the form of; as in anthropoid, asteroid, spheroid.
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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.
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One of the early discovered asteroids.
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Of or pertaining to an asteroid, or to the asteroids.
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A rare metallic element of the light platinum group, found native, and also alloyed with platinum and gold. It is a silver-white metal resembling platinum, and like it permanent and untarnished in the air, but is more easily fusible. It is unique in its power of occluding hydrogen, which it does to the extent of nearly a thousand volumes, forming the alloy Pd2H. It is used for graduated circles and verniers, for plating certain 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.
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One of the asteroids.
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The eighteenth asteroid.
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A body resembling a planet; an asteroid.
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An asteroid, or minor planet, discovered by Olbers in 1807.
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An asteroid discovered by Hind in 1850; -- called also Clio.
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One of the asteroids. See Solar.
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One of the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, descovered by M. de Gasparis in 1850.
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The first discovered asteroid.
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