DART Impact Changes Asteroid Moon's Shape
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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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