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Palomar

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Re: "A chip off the old Phobos?"

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*Did this space rock come from Phobos?

"A unique meteorite that fell on a Soviet military base in Yemen in 1980 may have come from one of the moons of Mars..." 

"The Kaidun meteorite is like no other in the world - and 23,000 of them have been catalogued. It is made of many small chunks of material, including minerals never seen before..."

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)