Photo # 3 (Apr 2009)

MARTIAN MOON DEIMOS FROM MRO

In ancient times, various holistic sciences were developed by highly evolved beings to enable their own evolution and that of others. These subtle arts were created through the linking of individual minds with the universal mind. They are still taught by traditional teachers to those who display virtue and desire to assist others. The student who seeks out and studies these teachings furthers the evolution of humankind as well as his/her own full development.
The student who ignores them hinders the development of all beings.
                                  - Lao Tzu

Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA

Mars has two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos. Pictured above, in a recently release image by HiRISE camera onboard the Mars-orbiting Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), is Deimos, the smaller moon of Mars. Deimos is one of the smallest known moons in the Solar System measuring only about 15 kilometers across. The diminutive Martian moon was discovered in 1877 by Asaph Hall, an American astronomer working at the US Naval Observatory in Washington D.C. The existence of two Martian moons was predicted around 1610 by Johannes Kepler, the astronomer who derived the laws of planetary motion. In this case, Kepler's prediction was not based on scientific principles, but his writings and ideas were so influential that the two Martian moons are discussed in works of fiction such as Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, written in 1726, over 150 years before their actual discovery.
Wikipedia notes:
Perhaps inspired by Kepler, Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) refers to two moons in part 3, chapter 3 (the "Voyage to Laputa"), in which the astronomers of Laputa are described as having discovered two satellites of Mars orbiting at distances of 3 and 5 Martian diameters, and periods of 10 and 21.5 hours, respectively. This corresponds to the actual orbital distances and periods of Phobos and Deimos of 1.4 and 3.5 Martian diameters, and 7.6 and 30.3 hours, respectively. Swift's prediction is regarded as a coincidence since no telescope in Swift's day was powerful enough to discover the satellites.

Conventional science does not acknowledge, much less credit, gifted intuitives who are able to see into the vast universe of collective consciousness that includes all that IS - as well as all that was and possibilites for all that will be. (The future is subject to changes because of the action of free will, which shifts with the flows of collective decisions that are beyond calculation - even for gifted intuitives.)
                                  - Daniel J. Benor, MD