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Phobos & Deimos:
Two “misplaced” asteroids?
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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”
Grooves seem related to the
large crater called “Stickney”