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Astronomers calculated that it had shortened the space rock's orbital period after the dust cleared from NASA's DART mission impacting asteroid Dimorphos. But the effects on Dimorphos were even more profound. According to a new study, the spacecraft's impact changed the shape of its target. Before the impact, Dimorphos was an oblate spheroid - a squashed ball. After the impact, it became a triaxial ellipsoid, an "oblong watermelon."
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-study-asteroids-orbit-shape-changed-after-dart-impact 
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