Definition of "moonlet" [moonlet]

• A small natural or artificial satellite. (noun)

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• "The Lancer analysis net had stopped calling the moonlet by that name, but he refused to."
• "The tiny moonlet, only a hundred miles in diameter, was so close to Jupiter that it spent much of its time eclipsed in the planet's enormous cone of shadow."
• "Though this could indicate many things, it began to seem more and more likely that the tiny moonlet was abandoned."