Multiple choice general knowledge

Name the science fiction write who wrote about 2 moons of mars -- phobos and deimos -- 100 years before they were actually discovered

  1. arthus clarke

  2. issac asimov

  3. galileo galili

  4. jonathan swift
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Explanation

Jonathan Swift wrote about Mars' two moons Phobos and Deimos in Gulliver's Travels (1726), accurately describing their distances from Mars about 150 years before their actual discovery in 1877 by Asaph Hall. This remarkable astronomical prediction in a satirical novel is often cited as an example of literary foresight.

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