Doctors at a small US 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 5.30pm Monday in Lorton, Virginia, a town not far from Washington.
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 travelling about 355kph when it struck.
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