Dr. Jason Dworkin, Project Scientist for NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission is seen hear sealing a glass test tube with a sample of Allende meteorite dust which is 4.567 BILLION years old. Jason is the Chief of NASA Goddard's Astrochemistry Lab.
Read more about the mission here: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/osiris-rex
Credit: NASA/Goddard/Debbie Mccallum
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