Suspect sought after reportedly grabbing women near Arizona State University in Tempe
November 24, 2020 [email protected]_84 Arizona, grabbing, reportedly, sought, State, suspect, Tempe, university, women
TEMPE, AZ — Police are searching for a skateboarder accused of grabbing women in the Arizona State University area early Monday morning.
ASU Police Department was made aware of the first incident around 1 a.m. after a woman reported a man grabbed her buttocks while she was at the crosswalk at Paseo Del Saber and Apache.
A second similar incident was reported by Tempe Police Department about 20 minutes later near Forest Avenue and University Drive. The woman in this incident reported a man on a skateboard grabbed her breast.
The suspect in both incidents is described as a tall, thin White man in his late teens to early 20s. He was wearing a dark-colored hoodie, dark hat and khaki pants.
Anyone with information is asked to contact ASU police at 480-965-3456 or Tempe police at 480-350-8311.
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx was so good at grabbing asteroid rocks that they're overflowing
October 23, 2020 [email protected]_84 Asteroid, good, grabbing, NASAs, OSIRISREx, overflowing, rocks, Theyre
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft did its job a little too well on Tuesday, when it tried to scoop up a handful of rocks from an asteroid named Bennu more than 200 million miles from Earth. The vehicle actually grabbed too much material with its robotic arm, jamming the lid at the end of the arm open — and letting part of the asteroid sample escape out into space.
"We were almost a victim of our own success here," said Dante Lauretta, the principal investigator for the OSIRIS-REx mission at the University of Arizona, in a press conference.
OSIRIS-REx's mission is to bring a sample of asteroid material back to Earth so that scientists can study the rocks in a lab. But because OSIRIS-REx bit off more than it could chew, its mission team is racing to stow the sample inside the spacecraft's belly, so the vehicle doesn't lose too much material to the void. "Time is of the essence, and no, we won't sleep," said Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's associate administrator for science, in a press conference.
"We were almost a victim of our own success here."
The good news is that OSIRIS-REx seems to have grabbed an abundant and diverse group of asteroid rocks. The team's goal was to snag up to 60 grams (2.1 ounces) of rocks from Bennu's surface, and images from the spacecraft show that OSIRIS-REx likely grabbed up to 400 grams (14.1 ounces) of material, according to the mission team. The sample includes rocks that range in size, and some are so big that they prevented the spacecraft from sealing the sample shut.
An artistic rendering of NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft about to grab a sample from asteroid Bennu
The engineers are confident that the rocks aren't escaping too quickly, so the spacecraft should be able to store a good amount inside the spacecraft before too much is depleted. They think that they lost between 1 to 10 grams of material yesterday, after moving the robotic arm around. However, NASA doesn't plan to stow the sample inside OSIRIS-REx until Monday. The mission team has to take time to figure out all the commands for the spacecraft and ensure that this process will still work with rocks spilling out into space. It's unclear how much of the sample will be lost as they wait.
There's another complication, too: just moving the robotic arm around with the sample inside causes rocks to flee outward, so stowing the materials risks losing more pebbles. The engineers think they may lose up to 10 more grams of rocks just by stowing the sample inside the spacecraft. But it's better to stow something than to wait for everything to leak out.
just moving the robotic arm around with the sample inside causes rocks to flee outward
To grab the sample from Bennu, OSIRIS-REx is equipped with a robotic arm that has a cylindrical sample collector at the end. On Tuesday afternoon, OSIRIS-REx slowly approached Bennu and gently tapped its surface with the