65803 Didymos
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Sep 30, 2026
Richard CampbellHOST
In September, the DART mission, so this is the Double Asteroid Redirect Test, Called that because it's actually a binary asteroid system.
Richard CampbellHOST
So Didymos is this asteroid that flies relatively close to the Earth.
Richard CampbellHOST
It's not huge, 780 meters across.
Richard CampbellHOST
You know, you don't want it in your backyard or anything, but it's not a tremendously large rock.
Richard CampbellHOST
And so they picked this target because A, they could get to it, B, they could measure it like they can actually see it well enough to know what's going on.
Richard CampbellHOST
And so they have this little impactor and their goal was to alter the orbit by 73 seconds.
Richard CampbellHOST
So hit the moon so that it actually slows down and will orbit closer to Didymos.
Richard CampbellHOST
They overshoot the mark by a lot.
Richard CampbellHOST
In September, the DART mission, so this is the Double Asteroid Redirect Test, Called that because it's actually a binary asteroid system.
Richard CampbellHOST
So Didymos is this asteroid that flies relatively close to the Earth.
Richard CampbellHOST
It's not huge, 780 meters across.
Richard CampbellHOST
You know, you don't want it in your backyard or anything, but it's not a tremendously large rock.
Richard CampbellHOST
And so they picked this target because A, they could get to it, B, they could measure it like they can actually see it well enough to know what's going on.
Richard CampbellHOST
And so they have this little impactor and their goal was to alter the orbit by 73 seconds.
Richard CampbellHOST
So hit the moon so that it actually slows down and will orbit closer to Didymos.
Richard CampbellHOST
They overshoot the mark by a lot.
Richard CampbellHOST
In September, the DART mission, so this is the Double Asteroid Redirect Test, Called that because it's actually a binary asteroid system.
Richard CampbellHOST
So Didymos is this asteroid that flies relatively close to the Earth.
Richard CampbellHOST
It's not huge, 780 meters across.
Richard CampbellHOST
You know, you don't want it in your backyard or anything, but it's not a tremendously large rock.
Richard CampbellHOST
And so they picked this target because A, they could get to it, B, they could measure it like they can actually see it well enough to know what's going on.
Richard CampbellHOST
And so they have this little impactor and their goal was to alter the orbit by 73 seconds.
Richard CampbellHOST
So hit the moon so that it actually slows down and will orbit closer to Didymos.
Richard CampbellHOST
They overshoot the mark by a lot.
Paul AbellGUEST
So it's a very common type of material that we find on Earth in our terrestrial meteorite collections.
Paul AbellGUEST
We see this in some of the materials from our own DART mission that went to Didymos and Dimorphos It's very similar to the type of material type that is thought to be making up the asteroid Apophis, which is going to pass by here in 2029.
Paul AbellGUEST
Right.
Paul AbellGUEST
So that people are excited about.
9 MINS LATER
Paul AbellGUEST
This looks like a classic rubble pile, right? It looks like what we've seen on Itokawa.
Paul AbellGUEST
Not identical, but similar.
Paul AbellGUEST
Again, not identical, but similar to Dimorphos and Didymos.
Paul AbellGUEST
This looks like rubble pile, right? So basically, the idea is you have two asteroids collide together.
Richard CampbellHOST
In November, the DART mission.
Richard CampbellHOST
This was the mission to see, can we actually change the orbit of a, s- of an asteroid? Uh, and we, this is when it launches, so I'll talk about it when it actually gets there, 'cause it takes a while, uh, to get out to the, um, Didymos, um, complex.
Richard CampbellHOST
It's, uh, an asteroid a- orbiting an asteroid.
Richard CampbellHOST
And finally, to round out space on a fantastic event, in December the James Webb Space Telescope launches on an Ariane 5 successfully.
Richard CampbellHOST
Uh, and we ...
Richard CampbellHOST
This is when it launches, so I'll talk about it when it actually gets there, 'cause it takes a while, uh, to get out to the, um, Didymos, um, complex.
Richard CampbellHOST
It's, uh, an asteroid a- orbiting an asteroid.
Richard CampbellHOST
And finally, to round out space on a fantastic event, in December the James Webb Space Telescope launches on an Ariane 5 successfully.