[Verginius Rufus]

Of course, 100 million years from now, when Phobos crashes into the surface of Mars, it will be George W. Bush's fault.

How many craters on Mars are the result of earlier Phobos-like moons crashing into the planet?

The original sense of "phobos" was "flight" (the related verb "phebomai" means "to be put to flight"), and according to the lexicon that is the only meaning of "phobos" in Homer. Later it becomes "panic fear" (such as causes flight), then "fear" more generally.

[count-your-change]

And then this little known fact: It became hobosphobos or fear of bums and homohobophobos or fear of gay bums and then it became photohomohobophobos or fear of pictures of gay bums. And then protophotohomohobophobos which I can’t explain since I’m 0ut 0f “O’s”.

[SunkenCiv]

Red Planet’s Ancient Equator Located
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1390424/posts