Die Marsmonde Phobos und Deimos könnten die Überreste eines zerfetzten Asteroiden sein

>Mars’ moons could be the remains of an ill-starred asteroid that got too close to the Red Planet.

>A shredded asteroid origin could help explain mysterious features of the small, odd-shaped moons, scientists suggest in the January issue of *Icarus*.

>Where most moons are big round orbs, Mars’ Phobos and Deimos are small lumpy potatoes.

>There are two main ideas for how the moons formed. One is that the moons actually were asteroids that were caught by Mars’s gravity. But that idea doesn’t explain the moons’ circular, stable orbits around Mars’ equator.

>The other is that Phobos and Deimos formed like our own moon, out of the debris of a giant impact.

Read [more here](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mars-moons-shredded-asteroid) and the [research article here. ](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001910352400397X)