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The quoted paragraph is from page 453 of a book called

Our Scientific Needs
Singer Science Series
Second Edition
L. W. Singer Company, Inc.  1960
George Frasier, Helen MacCracken, and Donald Decker (6 Dr. between them,
education lecturers at Stanford and Colorado State)

        "The Russians also think that the two satellites of Mars, Demos [sic]
and Phobos, may be man-made.  The satellites are very small and both of them
are relatively close to the planet.  The satellites are ten miles in diameter
and are losing altitude so rapidly that they may be hollow.  The scientists
wonder whether people from the planet Mars could have launched the moons at
some time in the past or present."


        The preceding paragraph was spied by Eleanor Toth in a text book
purchased by an elementary school in Maryland about 30 years ago.  Aside from
the spelling error, it is curious how far the behind the United States the
Russians were in space exploration.  I know the Russians had put up the first
man-made satellite, but didn't Percival Lowell know all this stuff about Mars
way back 190x?  Or was that just the canals?








Hope you enjoyed the 4th   Charlie Toth