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Phobos   /fˈoʊboʊs/   Listen
Phobos

noun
1.
The larger of the two satellites of Mars.





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... Phobos, the nearest moon, is only 4,000 miles from the surface of Mars, and is obliged to move with such great velocity to prevent falling, that it actually makes a circuit about its primary in only seven hours and thirty-eight ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 288 - July 9, 1881 • Various
... right. He poked his beak at it, and with a great deal of trilling and clucking, he added Deimos and Phobos to Mars, and then sketched in the ...
— A Martian Odyssey • Stanley Grauman Weinbaum
... manner this Third Law of Kepler's is equally applicable to the satellites of any planet. For example, when the periodic time of both of Mars' satellites, Phobos and Deimos, are known, being about 8 hours and 30 hours respectively, and the distance of either is known, as Phobos with a mean distance of 5800 miles, then the mean distance of Deimos can easily be calculated by this law, and is found to be ...
— Aether and Gravitation • William George Hooper


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