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    A toroidal planet is a hypothetical type of telluric exoplanet with a toroidal or doughnut shape. While no firm theoretical understanding as to how toroidal...
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  • Look up toroidal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Toroidal describes something which resembles or relates to a torus or toroid: Toroidal coordinates...
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    lists of planets. A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is neither a star nor its remnant. The best available theory of planet formation...
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    In astronomy, a disrupted planet is a planet or exoplanet or, perhaps on a somewhat smaller scale, a planetary-mass object, planetesimal, moon, exomoon...
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    systems, star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies, while asteroids, moons, planets, and stars are astronomical bodies. A comet may be identified as both a...
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    religion For hypothetical planets in fiction, see: Fictional planets of the Solar System Hypothetical types of extrasolar planets include: Marco Ceccarelli...
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    shapes have been depicted, including flattened, cubic, and toroidal. Some fictional planets exist in multiple-star systems where the orbital mechanics...
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    Around the youngest stars, they are the reservoirs of material out of which planets may form. Around mature stars, they indicate that planetesimal formation...
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    dust, planetesimals, asteroids or collision fragments in orbit around a planet. They are reservoirs of material out of which moons (or exomoons or subsatellites)...
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    Recreations: Sharks and fish wage an ecological war on the toroidal planet Wa-Tor". (T)he planet Wa-Tor ... is shaped like a torus, or doughnut, and is entirely...
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