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Mars may have made its 2 moons by ripping an asteroid apart

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Mars ' moons Phobos and Deimos may have been formed from debris created when a large asteroid wandered dangerously close to the Red Planet .

A new model proposes that Phobos resulted from the wreckage of a larger asteroid that wandered too close to Mars and crossed its Roche limit.

The findings were published on Nov 20 in the journal Icarus .

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