Dr. Marco Giuranna, from the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics in Rome and co-author of a new research paper on the Martian moons, suggests "re-accretion" models for the formation of Phobos are more likely, in which rocks from the surface of the Red Planet are blasted into Martian orbit to later clump and form Phobos. This theory runs counter to the notion that the moons of Mars are caputured asteroids. The research paper is available for review.
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