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      Mystery Object Crashes Through Ceiling 
      
      
      Experts Say Object Could Be Meteorite 
      
      
      POSTED: 4:12 pm EDT June 21, 2007
      
      UPDATED: 6:51 pm EDT June 21, 2007
      
      
      WOBURN, Mass. -- At Gerrity Stone in Woburn, they know
      
      a lot about rocks. But they can't identify the one
      
      that punched a hole through their roof the other day.
      
      
      NewsCenter 5's Kelley Tuthill reported that experts
      
      are examining the object, trying to determine exactly
      
      what it is.
      
      
      "No one around here has ever seen anything like this. 
      A real mystery," said Gerrity's Alan Weiner. 
      
      One would expect to find granite and marble at the
      
      stone warehouse, but workers were surprised to find
      
      the unusually heavy object on the floor.
      
      
      "Then we looked up at the ceiling and, 'Oh my God. It 
      fell through the ceiling,'" Weiner said. 
      
      For answers, Weiner headed to Sky And Telescope in
      
      Cambridge where J. Kelly Beatty examined the object.
      
      
      "I'm suspicious that it's rusty and it shouldn't be 
      rusty," Beatty said. 
      
      Beatty did some tests on the object, which weighs
      
      about 1.24 pounds.
      
      
      "This is interesting. It's clearly got some metal in 
      it. The magnet does attract," Beatty said. 
      
      Beatty said there is a chance the object could be a
      
      meteorite.
      
      
      "A third of me says 'yes,' but two-thirds says 'no,'"
      
      Beatty said.
      
      
      Beatty was intrigued enough by the object to take
      
      
      photos and e-mail them to an expert at Harvard
      
      University. Beatty said meteorites are rare.
      
      
      "The only one known meteorite to have fallen in 
      Massachusetts and that was in Northampton in 1963.
      
      That was iron, as this appears to be," Beatty said. 
      
      Meteorite or not, it's a mystery how the object fell
      
      from a warehouse ceiling.
      
      
      If the object is a meteorite, experts said it could be
      
      worth a couple of thousand dollars.