I think that the names phobos and deimos were selected by the IAU (International Astronomical Union) in an attempt to have some consistency, Mars of course being the god of war. The IAU continues to meet to select names for astronomical features, including topology on the different planets. Carl Sagan writes of having been at such a meeting where "Mons Veneris" was proposed for a particular mountain on Venus and he had to point out that that name was already taken.--TLB
I think that one key to determining one's ability to recall early memories is to have some extraneous clues, like your parents telling you that the helicopter arrived on your bro's 4th birthday. To a certain extent this enables you to date memories from before your verbal stage. I am now 65 and in addition to having very early memories, including a likely one that predates my second birthday, I still have a very good memory for details of events throughout my life. I have extensive memories of the immediate aftermath of my brother's birth when I was 2 years and 3 months old. I also have a possible memory of Christmas on my first birthday, one of my looking down from the second floor railing at the Christmas tree under which was a child's rocking chair that I know from other means that I received before my brother was born (the following May). A couple of years ago I went back to the town where I had lived then (1000 miles from my present home) intending to go inside to see whether the layout of the house comported wtih my memory (I had had doubts of there actually being a second-floor railing in that house). The house had been torn down within the year immediately prior to my visit in 2000.--Tom
Though memory can be flawed, I have a strong one of visiting a cousin in San Jose in 1962 and his driving me through Mountain View, while telling me "And they're calling it "Silicon Valley."
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I think that the names phobos and deimos were selected by the IAU (International Astronomical Union) in an attempt to have some consistency, Mars of course being the god of war. The IAU continues to meet to select names for astronomical features, including topology on the different planets. Carl Sagan writes of having been at such a meeting where "Mons Veneris" was proposed for a particular mountain on Venus and he had to point out that that name was already taken.--TLB
I think that one key to determining one's ability to recall early memories is to have some extraneous clues, like your parents telling you that the helicopter arrived on your bro's 4th birthday. To a certain extent this enables you to date memories from before your verbal stage. I am now 65 and in addition to having very early memories, including a likely one that predates my second birthday, I still have a very good memory for details of events throughout my life. I have extensive memories of the immediate aftermath of my brother's birth when I was 2 years and 3 months old. I also have a possible memory of Christmas on my first birthday, one of my looking down from the second floor railing at the Christmas tree under which was a child's rocking chair that I know from other means that I received before my brother was born (the following May). A couple of years ago I went back to the town where I had lived then (1000 miles from my present home) intending to go inside to see whether the layout of the house comported wtih my memory (I had had doubts of there actually being a second-floor railing in that house). The house had been torn down within the year immediately prior to my visit in 2000.--Tom
Though memory can be flawed, I have a strong one of visiting a cousin in San Jose in 1962 and his driving me through Mountain View, while telling me "And they're calling it "Silicon Valley."