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plan•e•tes•i•mal
Pronunciation: (plan"i-tes'u-mul), [key] Astron.
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n.
one of the small celestial bodies that, according to one theory
(planetes'imal hypoth'esis), were fused together to form the planets of the solar system.
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adj.
of or pertaining to a planetesimal or planetesimals.
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