How Much Advanced Warning Would We Get?

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Nasa has programme to watch patrols for moving asteroids. How much advanced warning would we get? Probably depends on the size of the object. We know where all the big objects are, but am there's a range in which you can do a lot of damage. But there they're all so hard to see. So te time i looked at this, we we're seeing all the really big ones, but there's an intermediate range that we don't have the capability yet of seeing,. Although nassa's working on this, so, ye.

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