terrestrial planet
Example Sentences
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"This is a terrestrial planet that I would describe as Io on steroids," Kane said.
From Science Daily • May 9, 2024
It is interesting when you think about it that we are the only terrestrial planet with a big moon.
From Salon • Oct. 13, 2019
Until now geophysicists have really only studied one active terrestrial planet up close—Earth.
From Scientific American • Nov. 14, 2017
Anglada-Escudé and his colleagues estimate that Proxima b is at least 1.3 times as big as Earth and is most likely a terrestrial planet, with a surface.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 24, 2016
Our terrestrial planet is in constant increase by meteoric dust, moving to it through endless time out of infinite space.
From Plato and Platonism by Pater, Walter
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
