Harold Connolly Jr.

Oh, thank you so much for inviting me.

It's a great pleasure and honor to be here.

Okay, but I'm not the PI, just mission example scientist.

That's all.

That conducts 260 people around the world.

But yeah, so OSIRIS-REx is NASA's new Frontiers 3 asteroid sample return mission.

And it stands for Origins

Spectral Interpretation.

See, now my brain is fried because I'm laughing so much.

I think I know it after all these.

Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, and Regolith Explorer.

Oh, okay.

Origin, yeah, right.

That's a great question.

A couple of motivations, and they're fit into that strange acronym we just discussed.

And there's one particular branch of meteorites, which I'm just going to show you both right here because I'm holding up my hand, which is known as carbonaceous chondrite.

There's several different kinds of meteorites we have on Earth, and these are really old.

This is what gives us the age of the solar system, the 4.567 billion years old.

We'll get back to that, but that's a great point.

But this one comes from sub-Sahara in Africa, so it's probably had camel dung learned sometime.