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asteroeides
Greek · ancient
"star-shaped, star-like"
literally star-like, from aster (star) and eidos (form)
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asteroid
English · 1802
"a small rocky body orbiting the sun"
coined by astronomer William Herschel for the newly observed small star-like bodies
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