Video: Earth has had 26 powerful asteroid explosions in 13 years
latimes.com
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http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v503/n7475/full/nature1...
Brown's quote in the article helps balance out some of the sensationalism: "To me, all this data shows just how effective our atmosphere is at shielding us from these things that could cause a lot of damage."
That said, I'm sure Brown is in favor of any new sensors to study the phenomenon, as it seems from his research that existing methods used to estimate potential airburst damage need a lot of improvement.