Dimorphos

moon of asteroid 65803 Didymos From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dimorphos
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(65803) Didymos I Dimorphos (provisional designation S/2003 (65803) 1) is a minor-planet moon of the near-Earth asteroid 65803 Didymos. It has a diameter of 170 metres (560 feet). It has been called a low-density rubble pile. It was discovered in 2003 at the Ondřejov Observatory.

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the asteroid 65803 Didymos with it's moon called Dimorphos

Dimorphos was the target of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), a NASA space mission that crashed with Dimorphos in September 2022 on purpose.[1][2] The European Space Agency mission Hera is planned to arrive at the Didymos system in 2026. It will study the effects of the collision on the moon.

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