NASA confirms half-ton meteor crashed into South Texas

Here's an article by NASA themselves. Had to use Wayback machine as when I tried accessing it I got a 503 error.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230217173353/https://ares.jsc....

Just because NASA announced there's no Meteor/Asteroid Earth-Killer/Country-killer that will hit us in the next 100 years, it doesn't mean that small sized ones would not. What amazes me is that when those small rocks do hit earth, they always fall into vast empty fields. The earth is so big and we fail to realize it. Once I read that the entire earth population would easily fit into New York, and it would not be so packed. I wonder what area would cover all the human made constructions (houses, buildings, industries, etc) and how it compare to the entire globe surface. It's actually very hard to hit humans from space, you'd have to try hard if trying to shoot a rock from sky to actually kill someone.

It doesn't sound like they knew about it before it hit the atmosphere. I wonder how big it was before it broke up.

Misleading title, as at the point(s) of the crash it seems to have disintegrated ?

One of my many nightmares is this happening over North Korea, Pakistan, or even Moscow, and the the origin of the blast being misunderstood.

Did anyone get iridium from the meteor?

If I found it, would it be mine?

Did they shoot it down?

It seems mass hysteria never stopes (or it is never left to stop). After everyone saw spying baloons now everyone sees meteors.