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The scientific study of planets and their properties, formation, and evolution.
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- comparative planetology
- research in planetology
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Comparative planetology gave her a framework for the unfamiliar surface.
His research in planetology had prepared him for the terrain, but not its apparent inhabitants.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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