Re: forgive my ignorance, I don't know who Dr Steel is or what specifics resulted in his comment n/t
Dr Steel wrote a book about impactors and is knowledgable in this area.
He wrote these comments in regarding the Australian political decision to end funding for their program to detect potential impactor (NEOs).
The result of this decision has left a large chunk of the sky which isn't being searched for potential impactors- (except there are some amateurs with small telescopes looking in the southern sky in a piecemeal fashion).
Here's link Ed forgot to include:
http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/ccc/cc031802.html
(second article)