I had every executive on the planetoidjumping before I was through.
The field was about the size of a football field, a bright, shiny expanse of rough-polished metal, carved and smoothed flat from the nickel-iron of the planetoid itself.
Shalimar Ravenhurst owned a little planetoid out in the Belt, a hunk of nickel-iron about the size of a smallish mountain with a gee-pull measurable in fractions of a centimeter per second squared.
It not only served as a landing field, but as a reflector beacon, a mirror that flashed out the sun's reflection as the planetoid turned slowly on its axis.
After the first planetoidwas discovered and had been observed for a few weeks, it was lost and had to be rediscovered by means of mathematical computation of its orbit.
The first planetoid discovered was called Ceres, the next one Pallas, the third Juno, and the fourth Vesta.
Conditions on this planetoid were impossible for it.
This planetoid can just support so many creatures.
Ekstrohm would get back to the nearest Federation base and report the planetoid without death.
Diogenes actually scraped her superstructure, with a noise that made every hair on her captain's neck stand upright; the others missed the planetoid by no more than a foot or two.
The black of space showed the bumpy planetoid like a ball of cold lava, and seated in the center of the screen, a man in a spacesuit.
Tell them to look for us somewhere in theplanetoid orbit.
The tugs would be able to find the planetoid by following the beeps.
The planetoid was turning under him, which made the ship appear to be circling slowly around his worksite.
The drill began to sink into the surface, and the planetoid began to move ever so slowly.
When the stuff set, the anchor was locked securely to the sides of the shaft and thus to the planetoid itself.
If you remembered even your sixth grade Solar System history, you would know that the planetoid Eros was settled in 2141 by a group of longhairs headed by Prof.
This bigtime space promoter could get the Horsehead Nebula in a flying mare--but pinning a planetoid is tougher!
The planetoid is lousy rich with erydnium ore and the people keep in luxury selling it to space freighters.
He announced that, upon Princes Aliana's orders, we were to have the freedom of Eros, so that contact with the planetoid culture could win us from our uncouth ways.
In a few moments the space launch was blasting away from the freighter and heading for a tiny planetoid in the distance.
Almost immediately, a spaceship appeared over the small planetoid and began systematically pounding the surface installations with atomic blasters.
According to its orbit and location, and the spectroscopic table of its mineral resources, it was a choice planetoid indeed.
Bruhlla, entitled to use of the mentacom for daily contact reports with Thrayx as he was, was the only other alien being on the planetoid who could converse with her.
It was a young world and covered with thick forests, much like the labor planetoid which circles Thrayx, and we believed our breeders would be quite sufficiently camouflaged.
Over and over, the same words, the same thought images which they formed; of Cain, of this hell-planetoid itself.
It had been the same the day before, and the day before that, and in the distance, they had watched similar craft descend toward other of the many colonies with which the lush planetoid was dotted.
Hardly conceivable, Daleb, unless--unless it was not simply a penalplanetoid which we destroyed!
Rings of laser arrays along the edge of the Extractor's hopper flashed alive and focused their beams on a large, slowly tumbling planetoid hundreds of kilometers across its minor dimension.
It is a mystery that they have held so long, and certainly this single section will not be permitted to leave the planetoid without being destroyed.
The heavy cruiser Chicago hung motionless in space, thousands of miles distant from the warring fleets of space-ships so viciously attacking and so stubbornly defending the planetoid of the enemy.
In the light of what I have just learned, the loss of the planetoid is but a trifle.
Any such, however, will not be allowed inside the planetoid area after the rest of us return from wiping out that patrol.
A beam behind which was every volt and ampere that the gigantic generators and accumulators of the planetoid could yield.
Then, all the attention of the Nevians and the greater part of their power output devoted to the neutralization of that last desperate thrust, the metal wall of the planetoid opened and the First Section shot out into space.
Flawlessly those instruments noted every detail of the destruction of Roger's fleet, of the transformation of the armada of Triplanetary into an unknown fluid, and finally of the dissolution of the gigantic planetoid itself.
I was just going to suggest that we clean up that planetoid Roger started, but I see that the local boys are attending to it.
For this vast planetoidwas no feeble warship, depending solely upon the limited power available in its accumulators.
Fiercer and fiercer drove in the Nevian flood of force until the whole immense globe of the planetoid was one scintillant ball of scarlet energy, but still the pirates' shield remained intact--at what awful drain of resource, Roger alone knew.
Soon there was a terrific explosion as the pent-up air of the planetoid broke through its weakening container, and the sluggish river of allotropic iron flowed in an ever larger stream, ever faster.
They allege that the planetoidis a security risk, in that it could be used for remote-control bombing of any of their planets.
A small part of theplanetoid may be able to escape; which, to me at least, is pleasantly surprising news.
And was there, or was there not, a lesser eruption upon the other side--an almost imperceptible flash, as though something had shot from the doomed planetoid out into space?
The whole immense globe of the planetoid became one scintillant ball of raw, red energy; but still the pirates' shield remained intact.
Should he stay with the planetoid to its end, and thus perforce return to Eddore with no material evidence whatever?
I have been wondering, and have been able to learn nothing about him; as you have said, such talk as this aboard the planetoid was not advisable.
I was just going to suggest that we clean up the planetoid that Roger started to build, but I see that the local boys and girls are attending to it.
The people who were already on this small planetoid could not use their detection equipment while the planetoid itself was within detection range of Beacon 971, only two hundred and eighty miles away.
The man who called himself Stanley Martin had carefully plotted the orbit of this particular planetoid and then let his spaceboat coast in without using any detection equipment except the visual.
John Vale, of the Planetoid Police, the kidnap gang could not have been taken by direct assault on their hideout because of fear that the boy might be killed.
It dropped down to the surface of the small planetoid only ten meters from the hidden trapdoor that led to the air lock beneath the surface.
The men inside the planetoid certainly should not have been able to pick up any more than the beginning of the conversation, before it had been cut off by solid rock.
Radar pulses emanating from a presumably lifeless planetoid would be a dead giveaway.
It dropped down to the surface of the small planetoidonly ten meters from the hidden trapdoor that led to the airlock beneath the surface.
John Vale of the Planetoid Police, the kidnap gang could not have been taken by direct assault on their hideout because of fear that the boy might be killed.
The men inside the planetoid certainly should not have been able to pick up any more than the beginning of the early conversation before it had been cut completely off by the intervening layers of solid rock.
Here was his greatest point of danger--greater, even, than the danger of coming to the planetoid itself, or the danger of waiting nineteen days in a cataleptic trance for the coming of the supply ship.
The man who called himself Stanley Martin had carefully plotted the orbit of this particular planetoid and had let his spaceboat coast in without using any detection equipment except the visual.
He kept his eyes focused on his work: It isn't easy to pour wine on a planetoid where the gee-pull is measured in fractions of a centimeter per second squared.
And we can't stand any hell--or sabotage--around this planetoid just now!
They would not move; the airless void surrounding the tiny planetoid had frozen the body until now it was as solid as the quartz cave-walls.
Nat had barely raised his ship from the Asteroid Moira when he saw the small planetoidlurch suddenly, bounding off its orbit at almost a right angle.
To them life on a planet like Earth was as life to a terrestrian on a planetoid such as Ceres, Juno or Eros would have seemed.
Venone had planetoid stations, that projected molecular rays of an intensity I wonder at, with their system of projecting.
As later estimates, however, considerably exceed this, it will, perhaps, be not far from the truth to state that they are each roughly about the size of the planetoid Eros.
It was reserved for Guiseppe Piazzi, an Italian astronomer at Palermo, to make known by actual observation the first member of the planetoid group.
So they continued the search, and in a little more than a year Olbers himself was rewarded with the discovery of the second of the planetoid group.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "planetoid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: asteroid; planet; wanderer
