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Phobos and Deimos
Topic Started: Dec 28 2009, 05:02 AM (597 Views)
Michelle
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Phobos is beautiful
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And so is Deimos!
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CJ
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I know. They must be tiny, though, if they're not even round!
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Michelle
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I had no idea (or I had forgotten) that Mars had moons :S
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CJ
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Yeah - they're easy to firget about, especially when they're so small.
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Michelle
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Oh ok, I didn't know how small they were
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CJ
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Did you know that Phobos will, in about 11 million years, either crash into Mars or break up into a ring?
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I suppose they're essentially asteroids orbiting a planet. Interesting that their names are both Greek for "fear" and "panic" (phobos and deimos respectively).
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KingsIndian
Feb 23 2010, 11:48 PM
Did you know that Phobos will, in about 11 million years, either crash into Mars or break up into a ring?
Whoa. No, I didn't.
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CJ
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Dakota
Nov 8 2010, 03:52 PM
KingsIndian
Feb 23 2010, 11:48 PM
Did you know that Phobos will, in about 11 million years, either crash into Mars or break up into a ring?
Whoa. No, I didn't.
And, 8 months on, I'd completely forgotten.

It's amazing how little we remember of what we know!
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Michelle
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I have a pretty good memory, but I don't think I quite knew that!
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CJ
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Mine is normally pretty good too, but I do often read snippets like these from old posts, and realise that I've since forgotten them.
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Michelle
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So, why will it do that, then? Do astronomers know why?
Edited by Michelle, Nov 18 2010, 10:48 PM.
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CJ
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Presumably, they've worked out the trajectory of its orbit. I don't know how they could do that, though, unless they know its current path PRECISELY....
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Michelle
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Oh cool, I had forgotten that you said it would bump into Mars. I wonder if it's possible a meteorite could cause this too!
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CJ
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It's entirely possible, although I don't think there are any known ones that would do that.
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Michelle
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Well, ya never know, it happened to the Earth several times
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CJ
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Yeah, it did. It still happens too...there was a near miss at the beginning of this year:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/01/wednesdays-near-earth-asteroid-caught-on-film/

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KingsIndian
Nov 20 2010, 09:37 PM
Yeah, it did. It still happens too...there was a near miss at the beginning of this year:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/01/wednesdays-near-earth-asteroid-caught-on-film/

That's a bit scary...
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CJ
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I wouldn't worry. Nothing with the potential to wipe us out is going to hit us in the foreseeable future.
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KingsIndian
Nov 20 2010, 10:35 PM
I wouldn't worry. Nothing with the potential to wipe us out is going to hit us in the foreseeable future.
Well, that's good
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CJ
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Even if there was one, they could probably fire a rocket at it to knock it off course or something.
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KingsIndian
Nov 21 2010, 01:06 AM
Even if there was one, they could probably fire a rocket at it to knock it off course or something.
Yeah, that's true.
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Wow... Phobos has a monolith. I wonder how big it is?
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And Deimos has interesting craters...
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CJ
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Interesting. It's hard to tell how big it is, but I'm guessing not very big, since it's such a small moon.

Those craters are kinda hard to see, though.
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