Meteorite strikes doctor's office in small town Half-pound rock punched through the roof and ceiling Monday afternoon
The Associated Press updated 10:57 a.m. CT, Thurs., Jan. 21, 2010 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34975955/ns/technology_and_science-space 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. URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34975955/ns/technology_and_science-space/ ================================================= George Antunes Voice (713) 743-3923 Associate Professor Fax (713) 743-3927 Political Science Internet: antunes at uh dot edu University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-3011 *********************************** * POST TO [email protected] * *********************************** Medianews mailing list [email protected] http://lists.etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews
