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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

That’s Phobos, the bigger moon. I wonder how Deimos would look in transit.

We had a discussion a few years ago here about the escape velocity for Deimos. We calculated that you couldn’t jump off the moon, you couldn’t throw a football to Mars, but you could hit a golf ball that would go into space, IIRC.


2 posted on 09/04/2013 4:33:34 AM PDT by RadiationRomeo (Step into my mind and glimpse the madness that is me)
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http://www.space.com/22392-curiosity-sees-martian-moon-s-phobos-and-deimos-time-lapse-video.html


3 posted on 09/04/2013 5:10:02 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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