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To: Quix
I really don't know. I could look it up, but just off the cuff, the Martian moons are very small in comparison with our own Earth-Moon system, so much smaller that they are really satellites of Mars, where the moon and the Earth both revolve about an offset center (the Barycenter) which is the center of mass for both bodies.

Also, IIRC at least one of the martian moons is not spherical, but more elongated.
65 posted on 02/08/2004 12:03:42 PM PST by Magnum44 (Terrorism is a disease, precise application of superior force is the ONLY cure)
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To: Magnum44
Though Phobos seems to be hollow and may be an ET construct, neither moon fits the shape of a typical UFO nor this bit in this photo, IMHO.
68 posted on 02/08/2004 12:10:19 PM PST by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
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