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| | Mars |
| | Mars (Greek: Ares) is the god of War. | | | (An interesting side note: the Roman god Mars was a god of agriculture before becoming associated with the Greek Ares; those in favor of colonizing and terraforming Mars may prefer this symbolism.) The name of the month March derives from Mars. | | | Fiction by a scientist who knows both how to tell a good story and the territory it is set in. |
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http://www.nineplanets.org/mars.html
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| | Deimos (moon) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | Deimos is probably an asteroid that was perturbed by ((Roman mythology) supreme god of Romans; counterpart of Greek Zeus) Jupiter into an (The (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another) orbit that allowed it to be captured by Mars, though this hypothesis is still in some dispute. | | | Deimos (dye'-mus or dee'-mus; Greek Δείμος) is the smaller and outermost of (The 4th planet from the sun) Mars' two (Any natural satellite of a planet) moons, named after (The outer of two small satellites of Mars) Deimos from Greek Mythology. | | | However, the orbital period of Deimos of about 30.5 hours exceeds the Martian solar day (" ((Roman mythology) ancient Roman god; personification of the sun; counterpart of Greek Helios) sol") of about 24.5 hours by such a small amount that it takes 2.7 days between rising and setting for an equatorial observer. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/d/de/deimos_(moon).htm
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| | ipedia.com: Mars (planet) Article |
| | Both satellites were discovered in 1877 by Asaph Hall, and are named after the characters Phobos and Deimos in Greek mythology, sons of the Greek god Ares. | | | A handful of objects are known that are surely meteorites and may be of Martian origin. | | | Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the solar system, named after the Roman god of war (the counterpart of the Greek Ares), on account of its blood red color as viewed in the night sky. |
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http://www.ipedia.com/mars__planet_.html
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| | Asaph Hall -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | It was discovered telescopically with its companion moon, Deimos, by the American astronomer Asaph Hall in 1877 and named for one of the sons of Ares, the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Mars. | | | It was discovered telescopically with its companion moon, Phobos, by the American astronomer Asaph Hall in 1877 and named for one of the sons of Ares, the Greek counterpart of the Roman god Mars. | | | Mars was an enigma to ancient astronomers, who were bewildered by its apparently capricious motion across the sky—sometimes in the same direction as the Sun and other celestial objects (direct, or prograde, motion), sometimes in the opposite direction (retrograde motion). |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9038905&ref=news0105
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| | Deimos |
| | Deimos (Latin for Panic) is a moon of Mars and was named after an attendant of the Roman war god Mars. | | | Deimos is a dark body that appears to be composed of C-type (blackish carbonaceous chondrite) surface materials. | | | The largest crater, located near the satellite's south pole, is about 2.5 km wide. |
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http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/glossary/deimos.html
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