Difference between Minor Planet and Asteroid

MINOR PLANET vs ASTEROID: NOUN

An asteroid which orbits the Sun and is larger than 10 meters in diameter but smaller than a dwarf planet.
Any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter)

Any member of the taxonomic class Asteroidea; a starfish
In the Solar system, such a body that orbits within the orbit of Jupiter
A naturally occurring solid object, which is smaller than a planet and is not a comet, that orbits a star
A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets.
One of the Asteroidea; a starfish, in a wide sense.
One of the small planets, 280 or more in number, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter: more accurately called planetoids. See planetoid.
Any of numerous small solar system bodies that revolve around the sun, with orbits lying chiefly between Mars and Jupiter and characteristic diameters roughly between one and several hundred kilometers.
Any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter)

Asteroid belt, Binary star, Oort cloud, Extraterrestrial object, Outer planet, Interplanetary space, Planet, Circumjovial, Inner planet, Superior planet, Inferior planet, Major planet, Giant planet, Asteroid, Planetoid

Spacecraft, Meteorite, Asteroid belt, Comet, Hyalitis, Vesta, Ceres, Icarus, Planet, Meteor, Star shaped, Minor planet, Angulate, Angular, Planetoid

Asteroid belt, Binary star, Oort cloud, Extraterrestrial object, Outer planet, Interplanetary space, Planet, Circumjovial, Inner planet, Superior planet, Inferior planet, Major planet, Giant planet, Asteroid, Planetoid

Exoplanet, Lunar crater, Oort cloud, Spacecraft, Meteorite, Asteroid belt, Comet, Icarus, Planet, Meteor, Star shaped, Minor planet, Angulate, Angular, Planetoid

It is a member of the Cybele group located beyond the core of the belt (see Minor planet groups).
Many scientists concluded that tiny Pluto should be reclassified as a minor planet, just as Ceres had been a century earlier.
This event likely threw off the orbit of the watery minor planet, bringing it in for a much closer orbit.
And how special for us to have been on this minor planet while this major mind rewrote the rules of reality.
Finding asteroids down the back of the couch: a novel approach to the minor planet linking problem.
The Minor Planet Center groups the centaurs and the SDOs together as scattered objects.
When an NEA is detected it is submitted to the Harvard Minor Planet Center for cataloging.
Palisa, remains the only numbered minor planet not known ever to have been photographed.
Future directions of minor planet occultation timing are suggested.
EPC and reported to the Minor Planet Center.

Sonic and his friends to destroy the asteroid.
Asteroid showers on Earth after family breakup events.
Lightfoot said the biggest challenge, actually, is not sending astronauts to an asteroid, but finding the right asteroid to send astronauts to.
The probe reached Ryugu in June 2018 and touched down on the asteroid twice last year, collecting the first-ever subsurface sample from an asteroid.
CRASHING ASTEROID The CRASHING ASTEROID consists of a moving bright dot which rapidly traverses the dome gaining speed as it travels.
On July 10, 2010, Rosetta flew about 1,864 feet from asteroid Lutetia, which is 10 times larger than asteroid Steins.
The target asteroid for DART is the double Asteroid Didymos.
Asteroid Mathilde, left, is the third and the largest asteroid ever to be viewed at close range.
Yarkovsky effect on a potentially hazardous asteroid and constrain the asteroid properties that contribute to this effect.
Newly found asteroid to pass near Earth U.S. spending $1.2B to snag asteroid Astronauts practice landing on asteroid Could we really capture an asteroid?.