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LORTON, Va., Jan. 21 (UPI) -- A Virginia doctor said a meteorite crashed through the roof of his office building and trashed a room only 10 feet from where he was filling out paperwork.
Frank Ciampi said he was in his office at Williamsburg Square Family Practice in Lorton, where he has worked for 18 years, just after 5:30 p.m. Monday when he heard a sound "almost like a small explosion" from elsewhere in the building, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
Ciampi said he found examination room No. 2, which is only about 10 feet from his office, and the hallway outside its door was littered with debris with the ceiling and walls and three chunks of stone on the floor.
Cari Corrigan, a planetary scientist at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History, confirmed the stones comprised a meteorite about the size of a tennis ball.
She said meteorites similar to the one that hit Ciampi's office fall to Earth "fairly often."
"We're bombarded by stuff like that all the time," she said.
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