planetless adj.
of a star: having no orbiting planets; (occasionally, of people) having no home planet; homeless in space
OED records the sense โof the sky: having no visible planetsโ from 1817.
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1929
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Edmond Hamilton
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Directly ahead of us, though, there flamed a small crimson sun, a dying, planetless star not far inward from the Cancer cluster.
Outside the Universe in Weird Tales July 66/1 -
1937
Olaf Stapledon
Thousands upon thousands of planetless stars awaited encirclement by rings of Worlds.
Star Maker ix. 208 -
1944
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Lester del Rey
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Five planetless suns and ninety years of searching are gone.
Though Dreamers Die in Astounding Science-Fiction Feb. 36/2 -
1950 Science Fictioneer in Super Science Stories July 70/1
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A tremendous four-way space war involving Mars, Earth, Ertene and a legion of planetless warriors.
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1962
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Poul Anderson
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We sha-Terra donโt threaten anybody. We're alone, planetless.
Day After Doomsday in Galaxy Feb. 134/2 -
1965
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Edward E. Smith
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It'd've been smarter, maybe, to've put 'em in orbit around a planetless sun.
Skylark Duquesne in Worlds of If June 11/2 -
2002
David Weber
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โHereโ proved to be a spot in space approximately five and a half light-hours from an unremarkable looking, planetless M8 red dwarf.
War of Honor 489
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antedating 1929
Earliest cite
Edmond Hamilton
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