What are the masses of the satellites of Mars?

Phobos has a mass of 1.5 x 10^-8 times the mass of Mars. Deimos has a mass of 3.0 x 10^-9 times that of Mars. Mars, on the other hand, has a mass of 0.1074 that of Earth.


Copyright 1997 Dr. Sten Odenwald
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