Lanlord, tenant battle over meteorite

SAN FRANCISCO

A Virginia doctor and the landlord of his office building are fighting over who owns a meteorite that landed in the doctor's office last month.

The doctor says the tennis ball-sized rock crashed through his ceiling. However, the building's landlord sent the doctor a letter, saying the rock becomes part of where it lands and is legally his property.

The Smithsonian museum in Washington DC is keeping the rock until a legal owner is determined.

The collectors' market for meteorites can be lucrative.

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