I didn't say they overlooked those dates. I said that if you dig through what they said, you can see what they were careful to not say.
But I'm sure you can trust them. After all, they are from the federal government, and the feds would never try to mislead us, would they?
Look, this is a simple and straightforward scientific/technical endeavor. One of the things I really admire about the NASA NEO center is their adamant refusal to engage in alarmism to fatten their budgets and influence. If they behaved like global warming fanatics, they’d be trumpeting every fireball and meteor strike as our ONE LAST WARNING that TIME IS RUNNING OUT to save the world!!!!
You piss all over them for tamping down alarmism, which they could easily stir up. I admire their intellectual honesty and openness. There’s no secret sauce, no “correcting” the data. The data is in the public domain, anyone can check their results.