The DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos and found out it's very loosely held together, almost like a pile of rubble, and not very dense. Most of its surface and just below it doesn't have many big rocks, making up less than 40% of that area. This suggests that Dimorphos might have been formed from bits coming off another asteroid, Didymos, and then sticking back together to form Dimorphos.
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The DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos and found out it's very loosely held together, almost like a pile of rubble, and not very dense. Most of its surface and just below it doesn't have many big rocks, making up less than 40% of that area. This suggests that Dimorphos might have been formed from bits coming off another asteroid, Didymos, and then sticking back together to form Dimorphos.
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