| Mario will find himself travelling halfway across the nearest planetoid in seconds. |
| It orbits the sun on a highly elliptical path which, even at its perihelion, puts the planetoid more than twice the average distance from the Sun to Pluto. |
| A NASA funded team today announced the discovery of a planetoid located a mere 8 billion miles from Earth. |
| Sedna, the planetoid 1,000 miles in diameter discovered several weeks ago, was first photographed with a small moon orbiting its icy sphere. |
| The planetoid, believed to be half rock and half ice, is named after the Inuit goddess said to have created the sea creatures of the Arctic. |
| I've heard a good astronomical theory that the moon was created by a planetoid crashing into the earth a long time ago, possibly carrying with it the seeds for life itself. |
