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A NASA study using a series of supercomputer simulations reveals a potential new way Mars' two moons formed.
How Did Mars Get Its Moons? | 1:48
NASA's Ames Research Center | 130K subscribers | 23,930 views | November 20, 2024
How Did Mars Get Its Moons? | 1:48 | NASA's Ames Research Center | 130K subscribers | 23,930 views | November 20, 2024

1 posted on 12/29/2024 10:06:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Taking samples from Phobos?

The Bemmies ain't going to like that.

4 posted on 12/29/2024 10:26:13 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Not a NASA website. Believed to, would have, likely. This is not an article of facts. It is speculation. Postulating a complex sequence of events and creating a computer simulation to demonstrate how it is possible for that sequence of events to have actually occurred. This is not science. If a body flew by Mars and was broken into pieces then became more pieces and then a ring which has since disappeared and now only two tiny pieces are left, it’s too much explanation than necessary.

Diemos and Phobos were most likely captured from the asteroid belt which is kind of close to Mars and has lots of asteroids in the size range of Mars’ moons. This is the result of a study made by me using the computing power of a human brain and repeating similar studies done by large numbers of other human brains.


5 posted on 12/29/2024 10:45:07 PM PST by webheart (S)
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To: SunkenCiv

Saturns rings are “raining” down on Saturn. They are decaying. The rings on Mars may have suffered the same fate instead of clumping together.
Why does entropy cause everything to fall apart, except when planet or moon building?


8 posted on 12/29/2024 11:15:47 PM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder tro find.)
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To: SunkenCiv

It’s as good a theory as any. Most of the dust that makes up the Zodiacal Light is thought to have originated from mars, and a captured asteroid breaking up in Mars’ orbit would explain that.


11 posted on 12/30/2024 12:07:43 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: SunkenCiv

I was told that those two moons are spacecraft that were fashioned from asteroids. They were used to bring about 1/2 of the Palladian ancestors to Mars. It is true, somebody told me that.


12 posted on 12/30/2024 5:48:59 AM PST by GingisK
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To: SunkenCiv

The truth is they are just guessing.


18 posted on 12/30/2024 2:17:26 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Before you post a nasty, stop and think: "Would that person slap me if I said it in person?" )
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To: SunkenCiv

Accretion


22 posted on 12/31/2024 7:43:50 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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