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Deimos

noun
1.
The outer of two small satellites of Mars.





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"Deimos" Quotes from Famous Books



... us was wonderfully illuminated by the two satellites, Deimos and Phobos, which, as you well know, were made known to astronomers on the earth by Prof. Asaph Hall in 1877. What a marvellous spectacle they presented, moving almost sensibly at their differing rates of revolution through a sky sown with stellar lights. The combined lights ...
— The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars • L. P. Gratacap
... these moons, Phobos, is only 3,700 miles from the surface of Mars, and we watched it travelling around the planet three times in the course of every day. The more distant one, Deimos, 12,500 miles away, required considerably more than one day to ...
— Edison's Conquest of Mars • Garrett Putman Serviss


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