Sentence examples for a small moon of from inspiring English sources
The phrase "a small moon of" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when describing a celestial body that is a smaller satellite of a larger planet or object in space. Example: "Europa is a small moon of Jupiter, known for its icy surface and potential subsurface ocean."
And it has turned out that Enceladus, a small moon of Saturn (illustrated above) and Europa have it in abundance: Enceladus may have as much as Lake Superior.
An astronomer has discovered a small moon of the planet Uranus that was captured on photos by the probe Voyager 2 (see below) but overlooked for more than 13 years.
Cassini images taken in 2008 revealed the presence in the G ring of a small moon, named Aegaeon, that is about 0.5 km (0.3 mile) across.
The theory had been that gravitational interaction of a small moon, Galatea, prevented the debris from spreading into a complete ring.
Galileo will do one last non-imaging flyby of a small moon in the fall and will then be sent crashing into Jupiter in 2003.
"Powa" also features one of the album's most arresting moments, a massed chorus of multiple tracks of Garbus's voice ascending together, in the distance, like the rising of a small moon.
In the "Star Wars" film series, the Death Star was a space station about the size of a small moon that was equipped with laser weapons powerful enough to destroy planets.
So yes, he was trying to tell those knuckleheaded commanders that their mighty battle station that is the size of a small moon can still be destroyed by those middling Rebel forces.
The app now also has a special low-light camera mode, indicated by a small moon at the top left hand corner of the camera screen.
Near-earth asteroids and the small moons of Mars are potential targets of human exploration.
Three aimed to study the small moons of Mars, four to use space telescopes (like NEOCam) to study small bodies, and 11 to visit comets and asteroids.
