Not really. What the article fails to tell you is that there have been many, many, many more than nine times that asteroids have been spotted, often years in advance, where the initial data had wide enough error bars to make an Earth impact possible, but continued observation quickly ruled that out and predicted, correctly, that the asteroid would pass near the Earth but miss it. True, those asteroids were quite a bit larger than 1 meter wide, but as the article's description of the "impact" shows, a 1 meter wide asteroid isn't a real threat anyway.
