Tortured Potato writes "NASA's Stardust probe is about to pass through the tail of Comet Wild 2 at 11:40am PST, January 2nd. If all goes well, the probe will return the material to earth for research in 2006-- the first extraterrestrial material captured from outside the moon's orbit."
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The cool thing is, my friend Tony and I signed up to have our names put on the microchip on the craft(this was back in 1998), so tomorrow, my name will be flying through a comet tail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sweet as fuck!
(the names are on microchip 2)
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The cool thing is, my friend Tony and I signed up to have our names put on the microchip on the craft(this was back in 1998), so tomorrow, my name will be flying through a comet tail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sweet as fuck!
(the names are on microchip 2)
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Date: 2004-01-02 01:57 pm (UTC)~~~~~~~~~~~
ahh...that is very exciting =)
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Date: 2004-01-04 08:08 pm (UTC)