Phobos (muin)
Appearance
Enhanced-colour image o Phobos—Stickney crater is on the richt (MRO, 23 Mairch 2008). Image: NASA/JPL/Varsity o Arizona | |
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered bi | Asaph Hall |
| Discovery date | 18 August 1877 |
| Designations | |
| Mars I | |
| Adjectives | Phobian |
| Orbital chairactereestics | |
| Epoch J2000 | |
| Periapsis | 9234.42 km[1] |
| Apoapsis | 9517.58 km[1] |
| 9376 km[1] | |
| Eccentricity | 0.0151[1] |
| 0.31891023 d (7 h 39.2 min) | |
Average orbital speed | 2.138 km/s[1] |
| Inclination | 1.093° (tae Mars's equator) 0.046° (tae local Laplace plane) 26.04° (tae the ecliptic) |
| Satellite o | Maurs |
| Pheesical chairacteristics | |
| Dimensions | 27 × 22 × 18 km[1] |
Mean radius | 11.2667 km (1.76941 mYirds) |
Surface area | 1548.3 km2[1] (3.03545 µYirds) |
| Vollum | 5783.61 km3 (5.33933 nYirds) |
| Mass | 1.0659×1016 kg[1] (1.78477 nEarths) |
Mean density | 1.876 g/cm3[1] |
| 0.0057 m/s2[1] (581.4 µg) | |
| 11.39 m/s (41 km/h)[1] | |
| Synchronous | |
Equatorial rotation velocity | 11.0 km/h (6.8 mph) (at langest axis) |
| 0° | |
| Albedo | 0.071[2] |
| Temperatur | ≈ 233 K |
| 11.3[3] | |
Phobos (seestematic designation: Mars I) is the lairger an closer o the twa naitural satellites o Maurs. Baith muins wur discovered in 1877.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Mars: Moons: Phobos". NASA Solar System Exploration. 30 September 2003. Archived frae the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- ↑ "Planetary Satellite Physical Parameters". JPL (Solar System Dynamics). 13 Julie 2006. Retrieved 29 Januar 2008.
- ↑ "Classic Satellites of the Solar System". Observatorio ARVAL. Archived frae the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2007.
