one-twelve-hundredth

Updated: May 2, 2025

Professor Young's estimate is that Phobos may shed upon Mars one-sixtieth and Deimos one-twelve-hundredth as much reflected moonlight as our moon sends to the earth. Accordingly, a "moonlit night" on Mars can have no such charm as we associate with the phrase.

Garrett Putman Serviss - Other Worlds: Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries