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Didymos
ORBITS:
Sun
SMALL CELESTIAL BODY
Didymos. A journey of about 2.11 years around the Sun.
Discover Didymos in the small-body catalogue, with an orbital semi-major axis of about 1.64 astronomical units and a reported diameter of roughly 0.78 km, then explore its place in the Solar System on the SPACE-di interactive map.
naif:
20065803
Reference material: NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory · iopscience.iop.org · European Space Agency · 3D render credits
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