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The list of successful detections BEFORE impact is indeed very short: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_impact_prediction#List_of_successfully_predicted_as

• willmadden 3y ago
  That's the most useful metric vs. undetected impacts. It's positive that they all happened in the last 16 years and the frequency seems to be increasing. The Rubin Observatory using AI to search will drastically increase the number. That might be enough to raise public awareness sufficiently to create a defense. Asteroid detection and defense along with studying solar events should be a higher priority than our current boogie men.