[Atmob-discuss] Meteorite strikes doctor's office in small town

[Peter Bealo]

I think an even greater surprise in this article is that the doctor was in
his office at 5:30!! What's up with that??  :>)   :>)

 

Mario: do you want me to get you a meteorite piece??

Peter

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Boy, some doctors get all the luck,.. why can't I get my own meteorite?
Mario Motta, MD


Meteorite strikes doctor's office in small town
Half-pound rock punched through the roof and ceiling Monday afternoon

LORTON, Virginia. - Doctors at a small U.S. medical practice got a big
surprise when a tennis ball-sized meteorite punched a hole through their
roof. No one was injured.
Dr. Frank Ciampi says the rock struck the two-story building around 5:30
p.m. Monday in Lorton, Virginia, a town not far from Washington, D.C.
He says they heard a loud bang and found the projectile punched through the
roof and ceiling, raining down pieces of wood, plaster and insulation.
The half-pound rock split into three chunks. A television station staffer
took it to the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History and
experts confirmed it was a meteorite.
They estimated it was traveling about 220 miles per hour when it struck. 

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