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Rupert was especially obsessed with an organization called the Asaph Hall Society, named for the self-taught scientist who discovered Phobos and Deimos.

Chairperson of the Data Bank Committee of the Asaph Hall Society, I can tell you everything you want to know about Phobos and Deimos.

When Asaph Hall went to name his discoveries, he logically evoked the two sons and companions of Ares, the Greek god of war.

Valerie, Bobby, and I are now honorary members of the Asaph Hall Society.

Kepler erred here, two moons did turn up in telescopic views of Mars more than two centuries later, when Asaph Hall at the U.

Fired by Victorian Mars enthusiasms, another American astronomer, Asaph Hall, set out with less poetic vision but a more mundane mind to search for moons around the Red Planet.

During the same golden age, when astronomy could still be done from observatories in cities, Asaph Hall sought Martian moons at the U.

There was Hugh, on his favourite self-willed grey, with his son on his saddle-bow, Aline, unruffled by the haste of her preparations for leaving town, on her white jennet, her maid and friend Constance pillion behind a groom, a second groom following with the pack-pony on a leading rein, and the two pilgrims to Saint Asaph merrily escorted by this family party.

But the real quantum leap in our knowledge had to wait until 1977, one hundred years exactly after Asaph Hall's discovery.