An enhanced-colour image o Deimos (MRO, 21 Februar 2009). Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Varsity o Arizona | |
Discovery | |
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Discovered bi | Asaph Hall |
Discovery date | 12 August 1877 |
Designations | |
Adjectives | Deimosian |
Orbital chairactereestics | |
Epoch 2012-Sep-21 (JD 2456191.5) | |
Periapsis | 455.5 km 23 |
Apoapsis | 470.9 km 23 |
463.2 km 23[1] | |
Eccentricity | 33 0.000[1] |
Orbital period | d 1.263 [1] (30.312 h) |
Average orbital speed | 1.3513 km/s[2] |
Inclination | 0.93° (tae Maurs's equator) 1.791° (tae the local Laplace plane)[1] 27.58° (to the ecliptic) |
Satellite o | Maurs |
Pheesical chairacteristics | |
Dimensions | 15 × 12.2 × 11 km[3] |
Mean radius | 6.2 ± 0.18 km[4] (0.97316 mEarths) |
Surface area | 495.1548 km2 (97.0755 µEarths) |
Vollum | 999.78 km3 (92.2979 nEarths) |
Mass | ×1015 kg 1.4762[2] (24.7179 nEarths) |
Mean density | ±0.166 g/cm3 1.471[4] |
Surface gravity | 0.003 m/s2[2] (306 µg) |
Escape velocity | 5.556 m/s (20 km/h)[2] |
Synchronous[1] | |
Albedo | 0.068 ± 0.007[4] |
Temperatur | ≈ 233 K |
Apparent magnitude | 12.45 ± 0.05 [4] |
Deimos (seestematic designation: Maurs II)[5] is the smawer an ootermair o the twa naitural satellites o the planet Mars wi a mean radius o 6.2 km,[1] the ither bein Phobos.
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