Police: More info on suspects in abduction
Nov 20th
VICTIM MAY HAVE BEEN A STREET PERSON
Police have additional information on the alleged abduction at CircleK last night. The driver of the van is described as a while male with a beard. Male number two is a short Hispanic male, 5 feet 6 inches tall, 30-years-old, wearing a dark jacket with the collar folded up, dark blue jeans and white New Balance tennis shoes. The female is described as approximately 35-years-old with curly blonde/brown hair, very skinny, wearing a baby blue hooded winter coat, blue jeans and carrying a tan purse with very large buckles. Witnesses described her as a possible street person. The van is older but in very good condition with tinted windows. The middle seat has been removed and the back seat remains in place. A photo of a similar van is attached.
A similar looking van to the one used in the suspected abduction
Anyone with direct information about this incident is urged to call the Boulder Police Department’s tip line at 303-441-1974 or police dispatch 24-hours-a-day at 303-441-3333.
The case number is 13-15574.
Anyone with information about this case may call the tip line at 303-441-1974. Those who have information but wish to remain anonymous may contact the Northern Colorado Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or 1-800-444-3776. Tips can also be submitted through the Crime Stoppers website at www.crimeshurt.com. Those submitting tips through Crime Stoppers that lead to the arrest and filing of charges on a suspect(s) may be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000 from Crime Stoppers.
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Boulder police looking for white van
Nov 20th
Police asking for public’s assistance
The Boulder Police Department is asking for public assistance in locating a white extended van, with possible tinted windows and a partial license plate number of 868-GY? Police are investigating two unconfirmed reports that a female was forced into the vehicle in the area of the CircleK at15th and Canyon at approximately 10:00 p.m. last night, Nov. 19.
Anyone with direct information about this van or knowledge of the incident are urged to call the Boulder Police Department’s tip line at 303-441-1974 or police dispatch 24-hours-a-day at 303-441-3333.
The case number is 13-15574.
Anyone with information about this case may call the tip line at 303-441-1974. Those who have information but wish to remain anonymous may contact the Northern Colorado Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or 1-800-444-3776. Tips can also be submitted through the Crime Stoppers website at www.crimeshurt.com. Those submitting tips through Crime Stoppers that lead to the arrest and filing of charges on a suspect(s) may be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000 from Crime Stoppers.
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CU’s Mars mission off the ground
Nov 19th
NASA’s Mars mission led by CU-Boulder
successfully launches from Florida
successfully launches from Florida
A $671 million NASA mission to Mars led by the University of Colorado Boulder thundered into the sky today from Cape Canaveral, Fla., at 1:28 p.m. EST, the first step on its 10-month journey to Mars.
Known as the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN mission, the MAVEN spacecraft was launched aboard an Atlas V rocket provided by United Launch Alliance of Centennial, Colo. The mission will target the role the loss of atmospheric gases played in changing Mars from a warm, wet and possibly habitable planet for life to the cold dry and inhospitable planet it appears to be today.
MAVEN spacecraft hauls CU research into space
“Our team is incredibly excited,” said Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN’s principal investigator who is at CU-Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP). “Everything went absolutely perfectly, exactly as we had planned when we accepted the challenge to develop this mission five years ago. Now it’s on to Mars.”
The spacecraft is carrying three instrument suites. LASP’s Remote Sensing Package will determine global characteristics of the upper atmosphere and ionosphere, while the Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer, provided by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., will measure the composition of neutral gases and ions.
The Particles and Fields Package, built by the University of California, Berkeley, with some instrument elements from LASP and NASA Goddard, contains six instruments to characterize the solar wind and the ionosphere of Mars.
NASA selected the MAVEN mission for flight in 2008. Scientists think Mars was much more Earth-like roughly four billion years ago, and want to know how the climate changed, where the water went and what happened to the atmosphere, said Jakosky, also a professor in CU-Boulder’s geological sciences department.
CU-Boulder also is providing science operations and directing education and public outreach efforts. NASA Goddard provided two of the science instruments and manages the project. In addition to building the spacecraft, Lockheed Martin will perform mission operations. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., is providing program management via the Mars Program Office, as well as navigation support, the Deep Space Network and the Electra telecommunications relay hardware and operations.
MAVEN is slated to begin orbiting Mars in September 2014. For more information about MAVEN visit http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/maven/ and http://www.nasa.gov/maven.
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