The details in this news story really don’t back that up.
Good to know more than what is in the article. We started turning on a series of new asteroid telescopes in 2008.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/411235/giant-camera-tracks-asteroids/
Pan-STAARS have been increasing the number of telescopes and data every year.
Canada just put up the first dedicated asteroid tracking satellite a few weeks ago.
We’ll start to see a lot more reports of smaller objects like this which we may have missed before or not gotten news.