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Didymos

Outline The numbers here are measured. The rest of this page is being written.

Sun
The path of Didymos round the Sun, seen from above and drawn to scale, with the white dot at its nearest point. The faint rings are the paths of Mercury, Venus, the Earth and Mars; it crosses the path of Mars. Orbit from NASA/JPL Small-Body Database.
Kind
Asteroid
Distance
1.643 au from the Sun on average
Once round
769.0 days
Path
a long oval (eccentricity 0.383), tilted 3.41°
Size
0.78 km across

In 2022 NASA's DART spacecraft struck its small moon, Dimorphos, on purpose, and changed that moon's orbit.

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Still being written

  1. What it looks like
  2. What it is made of
  3. How it was found
  4. Spacecraft that have visited
  5. Could it hit the Earth?

Sources: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database.