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NASA's DART impact permanently changed the shape and orbit of asteroid moon

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NASA 's DART impact permanently changed the shape and orbit of asteroid moon .

Study's researchers believe that Dimorphos may start to "tumble" chaotically in its attempts to move back into gravitational equilibrium with its parent asteroid named Didymos .

The moon was originally oblate but became more prolate (stretched out like a football) after the DART spacecraft collided with it.

The Planetary Science Journal , 2024 ; 5 ( 8) : 182 .

The Dynamical State of the Didymos System before and after the DART Impact.

The Planetary science Journal , 24th edition, will be published in March 2018 .

The authors' findings are published in The Planetary Journal , 2016 .

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