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by nsilvestri
1256 days ago
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You can derive it yourself. Dimorphos's orbital eccentricity is pretty low, meaning you can use: mean_orbital_velocity = 2 * pi * semimajor_axis / period As for the orbit around the sun, the parent body Didymos is about 100x more massive, so any change in the center of mass from this impact will have, in the short term, negligible effects on their orbit around the sun. |
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