Soon it became apparent there was a ring of rocky bodies between Mars and Jupiter.

The Moon is the most accessible and best studied of rocky, or "terrestrial", bodies beyond Earth.

Earth is a terrestrial planet, meaning that it is a rocky body, rather than a gas giant like Jupiter.

Seventeen, no, eighteen of them, on roughly our heading- along with a large, rocky body.

He could feel the heat radiating off their rocky bodies.

The mantle is a part of a terrestrial planet or other rocky body large enough to have differentiation by density.

Such inner freedom has never been reported before for any rocky body or planet.

Today, after decades of surveillance with Earth-based telescopes and radars, the rocky body is thought to be about 25 miles long.

It is a small, rocky body; its surface is covered with craters and blistered by the heat of the Sun.

Study of the Moon has established that a crust can form on a rocky planetary body significantly smaller than Earth.