Deimos

NEAR EARTH
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Hubble Telescope
Meteors
THE SOLAR SYSTEM
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Mercury
Venus
Mars
   Deimos
   Phobos
Jupiter
   Europa
   Io
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
ASTEROIDS:
Eros
Gaspra
Vestra
COMETS:
Hale-Bopp
Halley
Hyakutake
West
Deimos is the smaller of the two Martian moons, likely asteroids that passed close enough to be caught by Mars' gravity. Deimos is 12 km wide, and takes only 1.26 days to orbit Mars. The first close-up photos were taken by Viking Orbiter in 1976.

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A Planet Beyond
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A Nebula
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GALAXIES
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M 100
M 51
M 83
Irregular Galaxy
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