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Millions of objects stashed at a site open to select visitors tell the history of Earth’s inhabitants TEXT BY MEGHAN ROSEN PHOTOS BY STEPHEN VOSS Meteorites billions of years old, alienlike worms, a blue whale’s massive jaw bones. These are just some of the millions of marvels that the Smithsonian Institution has stashed away in storage. Most are part of the National Museum of Natural History’s collection, which comprises nearly 150 million objects. It’s not all bones and rocks, though. The collection holds a spectacu- lar array of biological, geological, astronomical and cultural items, some seemingly unassuming and others with undeni- able razzmatazz. …