phobos

Buzz Aldrin recently appeared on a channel called C-SPAN extolling the virtues of further space exploration, and one of the objectives he proposed was investigating a monolith on Phobos !!! When the presenter asked him who put it there he replied "the Universe, God"... well he could hardly come...

Does anyone have any theories on the conumdrum of Swift and the moons of Mars, was it just good science or was he psychic? They [the Laputians] have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve about Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of the primary...

I followed this link in FT's own Breaking News section to a site that poses this important (for Mars) question. http://www.yowusa.com/Archive/September2001/marsmoons5/marsmoons5.htm Check it out and let me know what you think. If somone is having trouble finding two closely orbiting moons...