Meteorite Crashes into Virginia Doctors' Office

The extraterrestrial rock was donated to the Smithsonian Institution, which has named it Meteorite Lorton.

"We have had a lot of people coming out of the woodwork. It's been a circus here," Ciampi says. "Yesterday was very difficult for the doctors because we had people with cameras in the waiting rooms, and we were trying to maintain patient privacy. They hung in there, but we had a tough day."

The happy ending for Ciampi is that nobody was hurt by the one-in-a-billion shot.

"We were very fortunate nobody was in the room. Our two physicians were about eight to 10 feet away. One doctor had a patient scheduled for that room who had cancelled."

After the last few days of media attention, Ciampi says everyone at the two-physician practice is ready for a return to normal. "We are just a doctors' office," she says. "We need to take care of our patients."