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I’m still out here [29 Jun 2005|03:46am] [ mood | crushed ] Hey guys, remember me. I'm still around. There's no one here. It's getting close to my launch anniversary on July 3rd. NASA decided to kick me when I'm down and post news on MY website of the Deep Impact encounter, that happens to be on July 4th. Now I know that's not on my anniversary, but it's close enough and when your just on this trajectory to no where. Sorry, I get a little more angsty this time of year. That's why I couldn't keep it to myself much longer. It's so lonely up here. I hate it. I wish I could get caught in the gravitational pull of something or have my energy run out. There is no Prozac in space. 6 remember me| please talk to me

being positive [17 Mar 2004|12:46am] [ mood | hopeful ] So I'm going to take a shot at being positive. I took advice from the comments of my last post and placed an ad on ljsingles. Maybe something will love me out in this great abyss called the universe. I'm going to force myself to be more cheerful. Let's see, it's pretty up here though it'd be nice to see some thing else beside the same stars and Earth. I might transmit to a satellite or something. Maybe they'd join me in a game of poker or something. Though it makes me wonder why none of them ever tried to talk to me before. I mean, I wasn't always this gloomy. 3 remember me| please talk to me

everyone hates me [16 Mar 2004|06:58pm] [ mood | lonely ] So fuse_sat thinks I whine too much. Well you would too if nobody loved you. I mean you at least have goes_sat. I have no one. In fact I'm going to take out an ad: Forgotten 3 year old 6" tall SF NBM NS ex-NASA probe ISO LTR with another 3-30 year old probe, satallite, rover, shuttle, etc w/ SOH SI for FTA and much, much more Hell I'd probably just take anything up here. 3 remember me| please talk to me

i'm still up here [16 Mar 2004|01:56am] [ mood | pissed off ] Hello planet Earth. Did you forget me, of course you did. My name is Comet Nucleus Tour, but my "friends" call me Contour. I say "friends" because you all forgot me. NASA didn't remember our one year launching anniversary last July. I know why, they were too busy with the Spirit and Opportunity rovers. Those cheap whores! Let's get started on my name. What's with my name: Comet Nucleus Tour! WTF!?!?! It sounds like the tour of some defunct rock band. I'm not a group of drugged up assholes, I'm an expensive and precise probe! Then call me Contour, what like after a Ford car? Well at least they didn't call me beetle, that's just an insult. 15 remember me| please talk to me

depressed [09 Feb 2004|12:12pm] [ mood | depressed ] I've been feeling a bit depressed as of late. I was so excited that NASA lost communication with Spirit. They didn't deserve successful, not after they left me. Then NASA fixed him! What they can fix some rover that's on another freaking planet and not me who's still in fucking orbit! Why did they leave me? What did I ever do to deserve this? Why? 1 remember me| please talk to me

ew [15 Jan 2004|11:24pm] [ mood | pissed off ] So the first bastard rover "Spirit" drove off it's platform today. 1 remember me| please talk to me

something else [08 Jul 2003|10:32pm] [ mood | bitchy ] Today NASA launched another craft. Rumor has it that this goes with June's launch and they are both Martian rovers. All I have to say is that they're going to fail. NASA has like was a 50/50 chance with these two. Fate screwed me over once, it absolutely cannot allow some brats to take my place. please talk to me

happy anniversary [03 Jul 2003|11:53pm] [ mood | crushed ] Well today is the anniversary of my launch. NASA forgot. They didn't call, I'm all alone now. I saw that they launched something last month. Actually only weeks ago. I'm utterly distraught. I don't know what to do. How do I start over. I've only been with them and now they're gone. Well it's over NASA. please talk to me

hello? [29 Mar 2003|03:47pm] [ mood | nervous ] Anyone out there? I've given it a few more months. I'm starting to think that NASA forgot me. I'm getting really nervous now. please talk to me

happy new year [01 Jan 2003|12:18am] [ mood | curious ] So I've given them, as to what I think is an ample time for NASA to call me. I guess they're still trying to work the kinks out. I guess it's only been 4 and a half months. I wonder what NASA is up to. please talk to me

shit! [15 Aug 2002|10:57pm] [ mood | hopeful ] Well I couldn't sleep last night. I couldn't wait for my engine to be ignited! It only partially ignited. I haven't heard back from NASA, but I'm hopeful that they'll fix me. After all they're the most capable people I know! please talk to me

soon! [14 Aug 2002|02:54am] [ mood | excited ] Tomorrow is the day! please talk to me

goodbye earth's orbit, hello more of the solar system! [31 Jul 2002|02:52am] [ mood | excited ] Pretty soon my STAR 30 solid rocket engine will finally be ignited. Then I'll be out of Earth's orbit. I'll miss my NASA buddies! I'm so excited! I'd pee my pants, if I had any. please talk to me

liftoff [03 Jul 2002|11:42pm] [ mood | excited ] I'm off. NASA sent me up on a Delta 7325 today at 6:47:41 UT. If you don't know, a Delta 7325 is a Delta II Lite launch vehicle with three strap-on solid-rocket boosters and a Star 30 third stage. I have a busy schedule though. I'm not one of those probes, that views a big target like a planet. Oh no, I'm taking a tour of little comets, thus I have to be a bit more precise. I'm not trying to say I'm better, we're all one big happy family, each with our own talents. So here's my schedule: (subject to change due to the discovery of a new comet with the desired characteristics - active, brighter than absolute magnitude 10, perihelion within 1.5 AU) August 15 2002 injection maneuver on to eject me from Earth orbit and put me in a heliocentric trajectory August 2003 Earth fly-by November 12 2003 encounter with comet Encke at fly-by speed of 28.2 km/sec 1.07 AU from the Sun and 0.27 AU from Earth August 2004 Earth fly-by February 2005 Earth fly-by February 2006 Earth fly-by June 18 2006 encounter with comet Schwassmann-Wachmann-3 fly-by speed of 14 km/sec 0.95 AU from the Sun and 0.33 AU from Earth February 2007 Earth fly-by February 2008 Earth fly-by August 16 2008 encounter with comet d'Arrest relative velocity of 11.8 km/sec 1.35 AU from the Sun and 0.36 AU from Earth. NOTE: The planned closest encounter distance of all fly-bys had will be around 100 km and will occur near the period of maximum activity for the comets. 1 remember me| please talk to me

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