YOWUSA.COM, August 9, 2001
Glen W. Deen
Is Phobos still orbiting Mars or not? Normally, that would be a rhetorical
question. Unlike some periodic comets, moons don't just disappear. If
Phobos is gone, something had to knock it out of orbit. An earlier YOWUSA
article stated that the Phobos-comet 76P collision hypothesis could be
refuted if either body could be observed where it is supposed to be: 76P
since about April 1997 (the presumed orbit-changing epoch) and Phobos since
June 4, 2000 (the presumed collision epoch). Recently two observations of
Phobos were reported (described below), but now one has become
questionable. Confirming observations are needed to bring the Phobos
mystery to a conclusion.
http://yowusa.com/Archive/August2001/The_Phobos_Mystery_Continues/the_phobos_mystery_continues.htm
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