Ageless rock

Leah Yamachica, 7, and Benita Paul, 6, below, examine an iron and nickel meteorite Wednesday during a presentation about space exploration by astronomer Brian Day, right, with the NASA Ames Research Center, at the Boys &Girls Club of the Big Island. Day explained to the kindergarten through sixth-graders that the meteorite is estimated to be older than our solar system.

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