Deimos

Mars II

Deimos Statistics
 Discovered by Asaph Hall 
 Date of discovery 1877 
 Mass (kg) 1.8e+15 
 Mass (Earth = 1) 3.0120e-10 
 Radius (km) 7.5x6.1x5.5 
 Radius (Earth = 1) 1.1759e-03 
 Mean density (gm/cm^3) 1.7 
 Mean distance from Mars (km) 23,460 
 Rotational period (days) 1.26244 
 Orbital period (days) 1.26244 
 Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) 1.36 
 Orbital eccentricity 0.00 
 Orbital inclination (degrees) 0.9-2.7 
 Escape velocity (km/sec) 0.0057 
 Visual geometric albedo 0.07 
 Magnitude (Vo) 12.40 

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