A 2-inch chunk of a meteor that exploded dra­mat­i­cally over Cal­i­for­nia struck the roof of the home of a min­is­ter, his wife said. “It’s won­der­ful. It’s like the heav­ens com­ing down, and this thing prob­a­bly came from an aster­oid belt between Mars and Jupiter. I mean, how cool is that?” said Lisa Web­ber of the rock that bounced off the roof of her husband’s study Thurs­day night and onto the lawn of their Novato, Cal­i­for­nia, home. Peter Web­ber is pas­tor of Pres­by­ter­ian Church of Novato. The object was con­firmed as debris from the meteor that streaked over the Bay Area, offer­ing view­ers a spec­tac­u­lar light show, said Peter Jen­niskens of the SETI Institute.

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