MSL - Astronomical Observations, Phobos/Deimos, planetary/celestial observations and more |
MSL - Astronomical Observations, Phobos/Deimos, planetary/celestial observations and more |
Jun 29 2013, 05:25 PM
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Sep 4 2013, 11:54 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 215 Joined: 23-October 12 From: Russia Member No.: 6725 |
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Sep 4 2013, 12:56 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Arabia Terra Member No.: 12 |
Anyone know any good, recent, freely accessible papers describing the future orbital evolution of Phobos? Have googled but to no avail. I'm interesting in finding out how many millions of years will elapse before Phobos is capable of producing total rather than annular eclipses.
Edit: found one! Clearly I wasn't googling very well the first time! |
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Sep 4 2013, 01:05 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1465 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Columbus OH USA Member No.: 13 |
Try this:
Improved estimate of tidal dissipation within Mars from MOLA observations of the shadow of Phobos They put an upper bound of 30-50 million years before Phobos impacts Mars. Lots of uncertainties though. -------------------- |
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