Saturn ring components

Usage examples of moonlets.

The gnats had strung their moronic web beneath a circle of tiny moonlets moving fast enough to hold it suspended.

Many of the moonlets were radiant, made of rich enough stuff to feed the hive, yet small enough for her infant to take.

Their small official moonlets occupied the orbits of a single tiny snowball.

One part of his brain piloted the ship, monitoring their approach through the asteroid belts and outer planets, while other parts studied the orbits of Bel-Major’s companions, logged four irregularly shaped moonlets circling Bel-Minor, correlated the wind-speed variations across Bel-Major’s latitudinal belts, and cross-checked the radiation levels reported by their sensors with the most recent models for stellar processes in the yellow-white stars.

To the limits of the analysis, between ten and twenty one or two-person nuclear-powered spacecraft had taken off from Bel-Minor within the last six hours and were in all probability hiding among the moonlets that littered the area.

But then the visitors came in their drifting interstellar moonlets,” Nemoto had said.

The moonlets would be hurled out of the system, each of them robbing Venus of a little more of its spin.

Along with the other three shepherd moonlets it brought a certain degree of order to the edge of the ring, creating a tidy boundary line.

The last of these was a gas giant with innumerable moonlets revolving about it.

The great gas-giant planet rolled through space in splendid state, its moonlets spinning gracefully about its bulk.

They took over the two outer moons and most of the larger moonlets, neglecting only the one that was the base for the Bellatrixians.

Others established physical orbits, becoming moonlets themselves, concealed among the chunks of rock already there.