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Phobos

[ US /ˈfoʊboʊs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the larger of the two satellites of Mars

How To Use Phobos In A Sentence

  • NEOs happen to be those (as do Phobos and Deimos for the Mars system). A Shift in Policy? Moon Base Axed? - NASA Watch
  • Mars, and is called Deimos, and the other, which is but sixteen hundred miles from the planet, is called Phobos by astronomers. Through Space to Mars Or the Longest Journey on Record
  • Phobos and Deimos are small, irregularly shaped bodies, generally similar to carbonaceous asteroids in color, reflectivity, and density.
  • Both Phobos and Deimos always keep the same side toward Mars.
  • Sunlight reflecting from the surface showed that Phobos was dark, absorbing more than 90 per cent of the incoming sunlight and resembling the meteorites known as carbonaceous chondrites. New Scientist - Space
  • the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos
  • In 2011 Russia will send a mission called Phobos–Grunt meaning Phobos Soil to land on Phobos, and an experiment will collect a soil sample and return it to Earth for analysis. New Images of Phobos from Mars Express Flyby | Universe Today
  • Phobos, which is believed to be a captured asteroid, will not stay pinned to Mars forever. Space Diary: Mars
  • Two small moons, Phobos and Deimos, were discovered orbiting Mars in 1877.
  • One of these, called Deimos, is only six miles in diameter, the other, named Phobos, is only seven, and both are exceedingly close to the primary and in rapid revolution. Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891
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