Editing Phobos (moon) (section)

=== Named geological features ===

Geological features on Phobos are named after [[astronomer]]s who studied Phobos and people and places from [[Jonathan Swift]]'s ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]''.<ref>[http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/append6.html Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature] [[USGS]] Astrogeology Research Program, Categories</ref>
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==== {{anchor|Craters on Phobos}} Craters on Phobos ====
Some craters have been named, and are listed in the following map and table.<ref>[http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/jsp/FeatureTypes2.jsp?system=Mars&body=Phobos&systemID=4&bodyID=22&sort=AName&show=Fname&show=Lat&show=Long&show=Diam&show=Stat&show=Orig Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature] [[USGS]] Astrogeology Research Program, Craters</ref>
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{| class="wikitable" 
! [[impact crater|Crater]] !! width=90pt| Coordinates !! [[Diameter]]<br>(km) !! Approval<br>Year !! class="unsortable" | [[Eponym]] !! Ref 
|-id="Clustril"
| Clustril || {{Coord|60|N|91|W|globe:phobos_type:landmark|name=Clustril}} || align=right | 3.4 || align=center | 2006 || Character in [[Lilliput and Blefuscu|Lilliput]] who informed [[Flimnap, the Lilliputian Premier|Flimnap]] that his wife had visited Gulliver privately in Jonathan Swift's novel ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' || {{WGPSN|14257}}
|-id="D'Arrest"
| D'Arrest || {{Coord|39|S|179|W|globe:phobos_type:landmark|name=D'Arrest}} || align=right | 2.1 || align=center | 1973 || [[Heinrich Louis d'Arrest]]; German/Danish astronomer (1822–1875) || {{WGPSN|1696}}
|-id="Drunlo"
| Drunlo || {{Coord|36.5|N|92|W|globe:phobos_type:landmark|name=Drunlo}} || align=right | 4.2 || align=center | 2006 || Character in Lilliput who informed Flimnap that his wife had visited Gulliver privately in ''Gulliver's Travels'' || {{WGPSN|14258}}
|-id="Flimnap"
| Flimnap || {{Coord|60|N|10|E|globe:phobos_type:landmark|name=Flimnap}} || align=right | 1.5 || align=center | 2006 || Treasurer of Lilliput in ''Gulliver's Travels'' || {{WGPSN|14259}}
|-id="Grildrig"
| Grildrig || {{Coord|81|N|165|E|globe:phobos_type:landmark|name=Grildrig}} || align=right | 2.6 || align=center | 2006 || Name given to Gulliver by the farmer's daughter [[Glumdalclitch]] in the giants' country [[Brobdingnag]] in ''Gulliver's Travels'' || {{WGPSN|14260}}
|-id="Gulliver"
| Gulliver || {{Coord|62|N|163|W|globe:phobos_type:landmark|name=Gulliver}} || align=right | 5.5 || align=center | 2006 || [[Lemuel Gulliver]]; surgeon captain and voyager in ''Gulliver's Travels'' || {{WGPSN|14261}}
|-id="Hall"
| Hall || {{Coord|80|S|150|E|globe:phobos_type:landmark|name=Hall}} || align=right | 5.4 || align=center | 1973 || [[Asaph Hall]]; American astronomer discoverer of Phobos and Deimos (1829–1907) || {{WGPSN|2328}}
|-id="Limtoc"
| [[Limtoc]] || {{Coord|11|S|54|W|globe:phobos_type:landmark|name=Limtoc}} || align=right | 2 || align=center | 2006 || General in Lilliput who prepared articles of impeachment against Gulliver in ''Gulliver's Travels'' || {{WGPSN|14262}}
|-id="Öpik"
| Öpik || {{Coord|7|S|63|E|globe:phobos_type:landmark|name=Öpik}} || align=right | 2 || align=center | 2011 || [[Ernst J. Öpik]], Estonian astronomer (1893–1985) || {{WGPSN|14865}}
|-id="Reldresal"
| Reldresal || {{Coord|41|N|39|W|globe:phobos_type:landmark|name=Reldresal}} || align=right | 2.9 || align=center | 2006 || Secretary for Private Affairs in Lilliput; Gulliver's friend in ''Gulliver's Travels'' || {{WGPSN|14263}}
|-id="Roche"
| Roche || {{Coord|53|N|177|E|globe:phobos_type:landmark|name=Roche}} || align=right | 2.3 || align=center | 1973 || [[Édouard Roche]]; French astronomer (1820–1883) || {{WGPSN|5167}}
|-id="Sharpless"
| Sharpless || {{Coord|27.5|S|154|W|globe:phobos_type:landmark|name=Sharpless}} || align=right | 1.8 || align=center | 1973 || [[Bevan Sharpless]]; American astronomer (1904–1950) || {{WGPSN|5474}}
|-id="Shklovsky"
| Shklovsky || {{Coord|24|N|112|E|globe:phobos_type:landmark|name=Shklovsky}} || align=right | 2 || align=center | 2011 || [[Iosif Shklovsky]], Soviet astronomer (1916–1985) || {{WGPSN|14866}}
|-id="Skyresh"
| Skyresh || {{Coord|52.5|N|40|E|globe:phobos_type:landmark|name=Skyresh}} || align=right | 1.5 || align=center | 2006 || Skyresh Bolgolam; High Admiral of the Lilliput council who opposed Gulliver's plea for freedom and accused him of being a traitor in ''Gulliver's Travels'' || {{WGPSN|14264}}
|-id="Stickney"
| [[Stickney (crater)|Stickney]] || {{Coord|1|N|49|W|globe:phobos_type:landmark|name=Stickney}} || align=right | 9 || align=center | 1973 || [[Angeline Stickney]] (1830–1892); wife of American astronomer Asaph Hall (above) || {{WGPSN|5707}}
|-id="Todd"
| Todd || {{Coord|9|S|153|W|globe:phobos_type:landmark|name=Todd}} || align=right | 2.6 || align=center | 1973 || [[David Peck Todd]]; American astronomer (1855–1939) || {{WGPSN|6042}}
|-id="Wendell"
| Wendell || {{Coord|1|S|132|W|globe:phobos_type:landmark|name=Wendell}} || align=right | 1.7 || align=center | 1973 || [[Oliver Wendell]]; American astronomer (1845–1912) || {{WGPSN|6518}}
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==== Other named features ====
There is one named [[Planetary geology#Regio (astronomy)|regio]], ''Laputa Regio'', and one named [[planitia]], ''Lagado Planitia''; both are named after places in ''Gulliver's Travels'' (the fictional [[Gulliver's Travels#Part III: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Japan|Laputa]], a flying island, and [[Lagado]], imaginary capital of the fictional nation [[Balnibarbi]]).<ref>[http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Page/PHOBOS/target Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature] [[USGS]] Astrogeology Research Program, Phobos</ref> The only named ridge on Phobos is ''Kepler Dorsum'', named after the astronomer [[Johannes Kepler]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (Groupe de Travail Pour la Nomenclature du Systeme Planetaire) |journal=Transactions of the International Astronomical Union |date=1988 |volume=20 |issue=2 |page=372 |doi=10.1017/S0251107X0002767X|doi-access=free }}</ref>