Talk:Dimorphos

Effect of impactor on orbit

The following makes no sense to me, and is not clarified by either of the citations provided:

"Dimorphos will then circle Didymos at least 73 seconds faster than before, so that its orbit is shortened by 10 to 20 minutes"

If anyone can make sense of this, please provide an edit that makes better sense. Otherwise, delete the confusing sentence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.66.133.19 (talk) 22:03, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

I removed the strange 73 seconds and wrote at least 10 minutes based on the existing references. --mfb (talk) 00:55, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Image time

@EnzoTC: According to the video it should be 20 seconds, was this a 10 seconds error in their calculation (because of size etc.)? Habitator terrae (talk) 00:11, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

The 30 seconds wasn't the exact time, just the rough time frame for it. It'd be great for us to go back and retime it to get the actual time calculations. EnzoTC (talk) 00:14, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

Mirrored images

Note that the NASA ~live footage of DART mission impact had flipped imagery, see https://www.nasa.gov/feature/dart-s-final-images-prior-to-impact. However, in some NASA galleries they have already fixed it. —Mykhal (talk) 17:03, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

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Move of a note into the main text

I think that the content of note "e" should be moved into the main text. I believe that the name of the person who named the moon is important enough to be in the Naming section. Pedeiaenthusiast (talk) 19:56, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

I agree Fred1000000000 (talk) 10:57, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

Origin and formation

There are some papers (and sites) that are about the origin and formation of Dimorphos, So I think we should add a “Origin and formation” section. what do you guys think? Fred1000000000 (talk) 11:10, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

Those seem to be good sources. Perhaps you could try to compose and footnote the text for such a section. DonFB (talk) 20:20, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

Whist do you mean with that? Fred1000000000 (talk) 15:45, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

My suggestion is you could write the text (which might be edited) for a section about origin and formation, and include footnotes from sources you found. DonFB (talk) 20:15, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

update

this page i think is really out dated, does anybody agree?

Fred1000000000 (talk) 18:45, 23 March 2026 (UTC)