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Phobos and Deimos Once a Single Moon?

Posted by michael on from the family-ties dept.

blamanj writes "Phobos (fear) and Diemos (panic), the twin moons of Mars have caused astronomers grief for years, as conventional hypotheses about the moons either violate physical laws or have difficulty accounting for their observed orbits. Now a new hypothesis conjectures that they were once a single moon, that broke apart in an ancient catastrophe."

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  1. FUD by limekiller4 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Great. Now we just need to find moons Metus (fear), Ambiguitas (uncertainty) and Dubium (doubt) and convince Gates to purchase them...

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    Limekiller
  2. Doom? by sirmikester · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe the catastrophe was related to the demon's gate that was forming... and was later reopened in the Doom games... think about it.

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  3. Thats no moon... by andersen · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thats no moon... Its a space station.

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    -Erik -- --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--
  4. Re:"Destination: Deimos" by kfx · · Score: 3, Funny

    Logistics are no problem! The UAC is in the process of building a matter transporter system, and we've got marines to make sure nothing goes wrong!