THIS IS REAL !!! Didymos and its small moon Dimorphos

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Asteroid Didymos and small moon Dimorphos

THIS IS REAL !!! Didymos and its small moon Dimorphos. Current live feed from the DART website …. Log on quick ! Impact imminent !!

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Well, in the midst of rehearsing madly for the Taylor Hawkins show tomorrow …. This is the best I could do for a baseline for a 3-D view of the Didymos system on the final approach. Just using a rather crummy phone capture. Well, it’ll do as a start.

Here we have a parallel stereo, a cross-eyed stereo, and then a best close-up on the tiny Dimorphos moonlet seconds before it became the victim of the attack by the DART guided projectile.

Asteroid Didymos and small moon Dimorphos - parallel
Parallel
Asteroid Didymos and small moon Dimorphos - cross-eyed
Cross-eyed
Asteroid Didymos and small moon Dimorphos - mono
Mono

I’ll be interested to see if any better material can be obtained once the cubesat gets there to take a look at the damage … but for now … this is my meagre offering !

Bri