moonlet

/moon-lit/US // ˈmun lɪt //

小月球,小月子,小月亮,小月饼

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a small natural or artificial satellite, as one of a number of natural satellites thought to be embedded in the ring system of Saturn.

Dimorphos is a moonlet asteroid that orbits a larger asteroid known as Didymos.
He was circling the black moonlet, at perhaps a thousand yards from its pitted surface.
He had just glimpsed the jagged moonlet rushing obliquely toward them from the left, bulking suddenly big and monstrous.
The Arrow, the Hound and the Lady circled the moonlet, swinging inward to the attack.