NASA will hit an asteroid in October 2022 to test planetary defense.
The target for the DART strike will be an asteroid, which will pass at a distance of 10.9 million km from Earth in October 2022. It is a double asteroid Didymos, which consists of two bodies: Didymos A with a size of about 780 m and Didymos B with a size of about 160 m.
Comment from Khabr: Here is the crew of the alien asteroid explorer ship "Didymos B" (Earth name) offer a gift...