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Originally posted by geoschmo:
I have always assumed that never seeing more than two moons around a planet could be justified simply by assuming only certain moons would be large enough to support a colony. Below a certain size and a planetoid is more of an asteroid then a moon.
Geo
I gotta agree with you there, Geo. For example, from the same site Henk posted, here are the data for Mars satellites. Phobos is 27 km x 22 km x 18 km, and Deimos is only 15 km x 12 km x 11 km. I don't see any race fitting 100 million beings on a rock that small!
Quikngruvn
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