Thanks Dana, I'd always wondered about the 108 thing.
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Originally Posted by JJDOBBER79
Thanks Dana.
That is really interesting. And I agree, the ability of people long ago with limited resources still amazes me. Did you see phobos eclipse the sun as seen from the mars rover? The footage shows that it is roughly half the size of the sun and quite an irregular shape as well which supprised me. Shouldnt it be spherical? it looks more like an irregular shaped asteroid. Maybe its the footage. Thanks for your post  |
Phobos is probably a captured asteroid as I understand things and is too small for its gravity to pull it into a sphere. Many - I suppose most - of the moons in our solar system wouldn't be spheres.