planetule means A little planet. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From planet + -ule, ultimately from Latin planetula.
noun
- A little planet.“At the surface of Mars, for instance, the gravity is only one third that at our own surface, at the moon one-sixth, and in the singular little planetules grouped between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, probably not more than one-twentieth.”