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To: ETL

Maybe the grooves were not formed while Phobos was/is a moon.

Perhaps this was a rolling rock on the surface of Mars. Grooves formed from the rolling. A nearby very large impact spewed debris, including Phobos, off the planet. Phobos entered a stable orbit.


23 posted on 11/24/2018 7:20:58 AM PST by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: C210N
Perhaps this was a rolling rock on the surface of Mars. Grooves formed from the rolling. A nearby very large impact spewed debris, including Phobos, off the planet. Phobos entered a stable orbit.

Utterly preposterous!

You must bear in mind that these celestial bodies are extremely fragile, low-density conglomerations of loosely-packed boulders and dust (possibly also ice), with a covering of regolith, held together by extremely weak gravitational forces. Think "7-layered wedding cake" or slightly denser "dust-bunny."

They are simply too fragile to have survived such a hypothetical cosmic collision intact.

Regards,

47 posted on 11/24/2018 10:29:05 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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