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Legal Battle Over Large Space Rock: If Lessee Owns It, Is He Liable to Landlord for Damage?

Posted Feb 9, 2010 4:20 PM CST
By Martha Neil

A legal battle over a large rock is making international headlines.

It all began with a seeming explosion in the Northern Virginia office of Dr. Frank Ciampi. In fact, a tennis-ball-size stone had come hurtling through the roof and hit the spot where he likely would have been sitting, but for a patient's canceled appointment, recounts the London Times.

When Ciampi and his medical partner learned that the rock was a valuable meteorite from beyond the earth's…

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