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Phobos
& Deimos: Two “misplaced”
asteroids?
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Grooves seem related to the
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large crater called “Stickney”
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Phobos
and Diemos are small (~25 km and ~15 km diam.) moons of Mars
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Look
like captured asteroids rather than moons formed in place
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Are
“C” class – i.e. dark “Carbonaceous” type “asteroids”
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