How Phobos is the largest moon of Mars converted into a “death Star” from Star wars.
American physicists from Lawrence Livermore national laboratory Lawrence showed how Phobos is the largest moon of Mars converted into a “death Star” from Star wars. Video is available on YouTube.
In the presented video demonstrates the collision of the satellite with an asteroid with a diameter of 250 meters, moving at a speed of six kilometers per second. This event has shaped the appearance of Phobos, in particular, led to the formation of the celestial body of Stickney crater with a diameter of nine kilometres.
Physicists say that the Earth’s collision with a celestial body, the diameter of which is correlated with the size of the planet the same as the diameter of the asteroid the size of Phobos, would lead to disastrous consequences.
Phobos (the radius of 11.1 kilometers) is located at a distance of six thousand kilometers from the surface of Mars and on a spiral path at a speed of two meters in a hundred years would fall on him. This makes it closest to the planet moon in the Solar system.
