Phobos and Deimos Once a Single Moon?

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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Re:FUD

[Antisthenes]

They are, and it goes without saying that Greek is the superior tongue. ;-) Uncertainty would be amphisbetesis, "dispute, controversy" (those e's are eta's, by the way, not epsilon's) and doubt would be apistia, "unbelief, distrust".

S.C. Woodhouse, English-Greek Dictionary
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon