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Dimorphos asteroid to scale with Rome's Colosseum
17 NOV. 2021 publication date 6067 Views

The 160-m diameter Dimorphos asteroid compared to Rome's Colosseum. In 2022 NASA's DART spacecraft will collide with the Dimorphos moonlet, in orbit around the larger 780-m diameter Didymos asteroid, in a bid to change its orbit. In 2026 ESA's Hera spacecraft will arrive at the Didymos system to perform a close-up survey of the deflected asteroid.

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ESA-Science Office

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