Phobos

Mars I

Phobos Statistics
 Discovered by Asaph Hall 
 Date of discovery 1877 
 Mass (kg) 1.08e+16 
 Mass (Earth = 1) 1.8072e-09 
 Radius (km) 13.5x10.8x9.4 
 Radius (Earth = 1) 2.1167e-03 
 Mean density (gm/cm^3) 2.0 
 Mean distance from Mars (km) 9,380 
 Rotational period (days) 0.31910 
 Orbital period (days) 0.31910 
 Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) 2.14 
 Orbital eccentricity 0.01 
 Orbital inclination (degrees) 1.0 
 Escape velocity (km/sec) 0.0103 
 Visual geometric albedo 0.06 
 Magnitude (Vo) 11.3 

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