Inside the Meteorite Clean Room at the Smithsonian

Don your clean room clothing and take a glimpse into the Smithsonian's new Antarctic meteorite storage facility in Suitland, Md., where all of the Antarctic meteorites in the national collection are kept under tight security and tight airlocks.

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[Alex Seyer]

glove box, not clean room..

[blurtbum]

more waist of real workers earnings.. more bullshit jobs created.. stand up private sector workers that actualy produce something and earn the food on your plate and vote that shit government out

[Cobac]

you responded to a troll ( me ) .

[LoopuleasaIonut]

If you don't see the use it doesn't mean there won't be a use.

For example, some physicist one day decided to play with particles and for fifty years the technology had no use. In the modern era, the same principle applies to MRI machines that can see inside you without cutting you up.

Same here. These meteorites hold clues to what the space holds.

[Cobac]

No use ? Then stop fundig this crap :)

[MonSwon]

At first I was going to say we should also be protecting our atmosphere from potential contamination from these alien matters but they realised they have already been entering our atmosphere for billions of years. The technical term for this in the science world is durrrrr.

[mahchymk93]

i hate pieces of puzzles being put together.

[Tommyr]

I'd LOVE to work there!