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To: fieldmarshaldj

They will someday. The two moons of Mars, Phobos and Demos will crash into the planet eventually as well.


15 posted on 08/04/2013 12:07:48 AM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: jmacusa; fieldmarshaldj

No, they won’t. Two of Jupiter’s prograde moons will:

http://www.seasky.org/solar-system/jupiter-moons.html

The retrograde moons and numerous retrograde moonlets may eventually crash into Jupiter, or they may be ejected from the system.

Phobos will eventually crash into Mars, Deimos probably won’t. They must have been captured by Mars, but no one has come up with the math to satisfy everyone else working on the problem.

http://nineplanets.org/phobos.html

http://nineplanets.org/deimos.html


18 posted on 08/04/2013 12:23:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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