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1 posted on 09/07/2024 1:04:50 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 09/07/2024 1:05:07 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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12.5 km average circumference. Good place to practice running a half marathon. Might need extra oxygen.


6 posted on 09/07/2024 1:35:26 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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Deimos’s escape velocity is only 5.8 m/s. A stone dropped from waist height would take around 30 seconds to reach the ground.


9 posted on 09/07/2024 1:46:34 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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Jonathan Swift and the moons of Mars
David Darling
https://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/Swift.html

How did Jonathan Swift predict mars moon speeds?
Ian_Brooks
June 24, 2009
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/how-did-jonathan-swift-predict-mars-moon-speeds.321709/

My first encounter with this was here:

Jonathan Swift and the Moons of Mars
Ken D. Moss
Kronos vol.0804
Summer 1983


16 posted on 09/07/2024 4:27:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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There was a sci fi story where explorers found the third moon that was at such a low altitude that it cut through mountains.

Three moons

phobos
demos
bottom most


18 posted on 09/07/2024 9:14:00 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
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