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The Orbit of Asteroid Didymos
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This diagram shows the orbit of binary asteroid Didymos around the Sun. Didymos consists of a large, nearly half-mile-wide (780-meter-wide) asteroid orbited by a smaller, 525-foot-wide (160-meter-wide) asteroid, or moonlet. Didymos' orbital path around the Sun is shown as the thin white ellipse and Earth's orbit is the thick white line. In the background are the orbits for 2,200 other known potentially hazardous asteroids.
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Credit lineThe Orbit of Asteroid Didymos. NASA/JPL, 2021-11-17. Public domain. ID: PIA24565.
