Asteroid

65803 Didymos and its moon Dimorphos

65803 Didymos and its moon Dimorphos is a near-Earth object on its own orbit around the Sun.

DART hit its small moon Dimorphos in 2022 and shortened its orbit by 32 minutes — the first time people moved another world.

Key facts

Catalogue

65803 Didymos

Diameter

0.78 km

One lap of the Sun

2 years

Closest to the Sun

1.01 au

How the map draws it

Drawn from a published model of 65803 Didymos and its moon Dimorphos · both turn about their measured pole at their measured rates, and Dimorphos goes round at the distance and period measured after DART struck it; where it is on that orbit is illustrative.