We Have a Hit!

From MSNBC:

WASHINGTON - A missile launched from a Navy ship successfully struck a dying U.S. spy satellite passing 130 miles over the Pacific on Wednesday, a defense official said.

Two officials said the missile was launched successfully just after 10:30 p.m. ET. One official, who is close to the process, said it hit the target. He said details on the results were not immediately known.

The goal in this first-of-its-kind mission for the Navy was not just to hit the satellite but to obliterate a tank aboard the spacecraft carrying 1,000 pounds of a toxic fuel called hydrazine.

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What scares me about this is that what we hear in the media is often just a  small part of what the truth is, and for good reason - we don't want mass panic, and I would be one of the people having a panic. Why the urgency to shoot it down? What was it really doing up there? Where is the debris going to land, and where would it have landed had we not shot it down? Are we talking another Grand Canyon? Probably not because it was the size of a school bus. I'm not, however, a physics expert so I can't say what damage it would have caused had it fallen whole. Either way, the whole thing kind of freaks me out.