Asteroid
Didymos
Didymos 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.
See it live
Where it is right now is on the live 3D map.
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 as a generic asteroid — the kind of thing, not this exact one.