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Dimorphos. A close companion in Didymos’s system.
Discover Dimorphos, a moon of Didymos with an orbital semi-major axis of about 1.2 km, then explore its place in the Solar System on the SPACE-di interactive map.
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Dimorphos: a companion of Didymos…
Dimorphos is a moon of Didymos, part of the Solar System in the universe. Didymos is a small body associated with the Sun, our star, and this space encyclopedia describes the moon’s identity and place in its planetary system.
Dimorphos is the small moon of the Didymos asteroid system. DART deliberately struck it in 2022, demonstrating a kinetic-impact technique for changing an asteroid moonlet’s orbit.