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moonlet
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Moonlet
A
moonlet
is a particularly small
natural satellite
of a planet. Two different types of small moons have been called moonlets:
A belt of objects embedded in a planetary ring, as in
Saturn's A Ring
or
S/2009 S 1
in the
B Ring
("propeller" moonlets) or in
Saturn's F Ring
.
Occasionally for
asteroid moons
, such as the moons of
87 Sylvia
.
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