Would NASA tell anyone if an asteroid were going to smack into us?

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An interesting thought. I don’t think they would tell us, or at least they would want to ‘manage’ the announcement. It might be difficult to keep quiet. The few people in the know would want to tell a few others, relatives and friends perhaps who lived in the target zone and word would get out.

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