65803 Didymos

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65803 Didymos is a 750-m wide near-Earth asteroid belonging to the Apollo group. Discovered in 1996, it has a small moon about 160 m in diameter, named Dimorphos, which is targeted by NASA's Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) mission to test planetary defense methods in September 2022.

The orbit of its moon, Dimorphos, before and after the DART impact, 2022-Sept-26.

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