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Tango01	25 Apr 2018 10:24 p.m. PST
…large impact. "Scientists posit a violent birth of the tiny Martian moons Phobos and Deimos, but on a much smaller scale than the giant impact thought to have resulted in the Earth-moon system. Their work shows that an impact between proto-Mars and a dwarf-planet-sized object likely produced the two moons…." Main page link Amicalement Armand
Bowman	27 Apr 2018 9:32 a.m. PST
Same as our "Big Thwack"! More likely event on Mars as it's closer to the asteroid belt. So "Martian Medium Thwack"?
Tango01	27 Apr 2018 11:36 a.m. PST
(smile) Amicalement Armand

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