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Today on xkcd, an illustration showing the gravity wells of our solar system's planets and some of their moons.
Two of Mars' tiny moons barely have any gravity at all:
You could escape Deimos with a bike and a ramp. A thrown baseball could escape Phobos.
That's great, but you forgot Pluto!
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