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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars
APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 3 Jul, 2022 | Image Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA

Posted on 07/03/2022 3:49:50 PM PDT by MtnClimber

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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

I hope it does not hit the American Flag that the astronauts left.


21 posted on 07/03/2022 5:29:43 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
I’m going to set my DVR right now to catch the epic moment!

Don't bother. I just read that it's gonna be at night.

22 posted on 07/03/2022 5:40:51 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐Public hangings will wake 'em up.⭐⭐)
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To: antidemoncrat
I'll wait ... maybe

according to AOC, Algore and Grrreta we will all be dead by then so who's counting?

23 posted on 07/03/2022 5:48:22 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives: Ban Gun Free Zones)
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To: sit-rep; Delta 21

No point in even going there. Time we colonize it, the clock will be ticking as to when the moon drops.


24 posted on 07/03/2022 6:25:37 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

The Mysterious Destruction of Phobos II

“For the next few minutes, all eyes in the control room remained fixed upon the data being received by the probe sensors, until another technician shouted that all contact had been lost. The hours which were spent trying to re-establish communications with the satellite soon progressed in to days. No signals were either being received by or transmitted from the device. It was clear that something must have collided with and completely destroyed it. As he later prepared himself to brief the oversight committee, which had asked him for an update on the situation, the controller stared down at the final photograph, which the probe had taken.“

“The image depicted a huge elliptical shadow, being cast down onto the surface of Phobos beneath the orbiting satellite. He would later admit under questioning that he had no idea what might have caused such an anomaly and that if it was not an anomaly, then he had no idea what it was. He had defended his calculations regarding the size the unknown object would have to have been to cast such an enormous shadow. He would also concede that the shape of the object did seem to depict what the Americans referred to as a flying saucer, before walking out to the briefing room, leaving the committee members sitting behind him in stunned silence….”

https://www.creepyystories.com/post/the-mysterious-destruction-of-phobos-ii


25 posted on 07/03/2022 7:15:47 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: Colt1851Navy

It’s a space potato. Just like Joe.


26 posted on 07/03/2022 7:47:37 PM PDT by Noumenon (Black American flag time. KTF)
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To: Carthego delenda est

That’s not bad. Thanks.


27 posted on 07/03/2022 8:05:08 PM PDT by TChad ("Joe, we should evacuate the civilians before the military. You understand that, right? Joe?")
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To: MtnClimber

“I hope it does not hit the American Flag that the astronauts left.”

LOL

Are you related to Sheila Jackson Lee, by chance? ;-)


28 posted on 07/03/2022 9:56:53 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Land is simply a place I visit until I can return to the sea.)
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To: MtnClimber

Hence its use as the setting for the original DOOM series on MS-DOS. I loved those games... Bethesda’s remake moved the labs to the surface of Mars. I don’t think the moons were mentioned.


29 posted on 07/03/2022 11:28:53 PM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: Larry Lucido

bttt!


30 posted on 07/04/2022 4:16:54 AM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Do you need an assistant? I’m not cheap but I don’t work very hard.


31 posted on 07/04/2022 5:58:19 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: MtnClimber

Phobos represents small scale accretion at work.

Both our solar system and galaxy are the product of accretive gravitational force


32 posted on 07/04/2022 6:02:43 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Promoting Afro-Heritage diversity will destroy the democrats)
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To: MtnClimber
In my best Kramer voice..

"...Poor little Phobos.." d;^)

33 posted on 07/04/2022 7:19:44 AM PDT by CopperTop (Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
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To: MtnClimber
In perhaps 50 million years, Phobos is expected to disintegrate into a ring of debris.

Why would it disintegrate rather than crash into Mars? The atmosphere is too thin to break it up or burn it

34 posted on 07/04/2022 9:06:26 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: MtnClimber

Of possible ineterest for your ping list:
“New ‘Little Sombrero’ image is a feather in Hubble’s cap”
https://www.space.com/little-sombrero-hubble-image-cap


35 posted on 07/06/2022 9:05:41 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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