On Jul 28, 2009, at 5:02 PM, OrionWorks wrote:
"We should go boldly where man has not gone before – fly by the comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There’s a monolith there. A very unusual structure on this little potato shaped object that goes around Mars once in seven hours. When people find out about that, they’re going to say "Who put that there?" Well, the universe put it there. If you choose, God put it there."
Mars has *two* moons, Phobos and Deimos. Strange he would make that mistake.
Since the larger, Phobos, has an orbital period of 7.66 hours, he must be talking about that one. It certainly is small, diameter 22.2 km. Not much energy required to adjust the orbit of a very low flying low speed robotic survey satellite so as to photograph every centimeter of it in 3D from multiple angles, and then land for close inspection.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Mars Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
