Word: planetoid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Delporte and Reinmuth Objects (about three miles diameter) and from their unexpected locations. The Delporte Object was only ten million miles from Earth. The Sun is 92,897,400 mi. away. Venus (nearest planet) is 25 million miles at its nearest. The big, 20-mi.-in-diameter planetoid Eros approaches to 13,800,000 mi. Nothing planetary it seemed could come closer to Earth...
When a new planetoid (or what may be a new planetoid) is discovered, the report is immediately sent to the Astronomisches Recheninstitut in Berlin, whence the news is broadcast to all observatories. When the nature of the new object is uncertain, Professor Armin Otto Leuschner of the University of California at Berkeley often is called upon. Professor Leuschner has developed short mathematical formulae to describe the courses of planetoids and comets. He matches the curves of the new orbits supplied him to the curves of his formulae. Last week he and other astronomers who had checked over his work were...
...word which described the new heavenly body. The symbol for ten, or ju, is approximately that of the mathematical plus sign (+); for 1,000 or sen, approximately that of the plus-or-minus sign (±). The careless reporter had added the upper cross bar. The new "planet" is a planetoid, about 110 not 11,000 miles in diameter. It lies between Mars and Jupiter in the general orbit of the thousand-odd other planetoids (TIME, March...
...American Ambulance Service. France has been grateful. Shortly before her death Mrs. Tuck became an officer of the Legion of Honor in her own right. Edward Tuck wears the Grand Cross, France's highest decoration. Because of his interest in science, millions of miles from the earth a planetoid twinkles, known to all astronomers as TUCKIA...