New pictures of Deimos

Hi

I thought I'd post this as I am now quite interested in Phobos and Deimos, after doing a talk on them late last year.

Well as I am sure you are aware Mars as 2 tiny moons Phobos and Deimos. Which are almost certainly captured astroids ( A hole different story). Previously there as not been many images of Deimos, due to it's small size 15 kilometers across. Until now!

Recently the Mars reconnaissance orbiter which is really the spy satellite of the martian system,if it was in orbit around earth it would be classed as a spy satellite, because of it's high resolution camera HIRISE. As made several close fly by passes of the moon and, revealed previously unseen detail as seen above using that camera. Personally I wish I had these images when doing my talk!

In the image you can see that Deimos looks quite similar to Phobos having the same brown pink hue, irregular shape and quite heavily cratered surface.

Discovery of moons. The moons were discovered in 1877 by the American Astronomer Asaph hall. The moons were also predicted in several books including Gulliver's travels.

I hope that as informed you if you were interested.

Kyle

The new Guns n Roses album. Is it any good?

Hi

The new GnR album came out a few months ago and I have recently bought it and started to listen to the songs. But is it any good?

Well I'll have to start by saying I am a huge fan of GnR and have most of there older albums. So eagerly anticipated there new one. What a shock! One most of the band as left with only Axl left, although that didn't really bother me has Axl is really the heart of the band. The thing that did surprise me was that they don't sound the same. The lyrics are pretty similar to the old ones but the riffs and intros are very different. But then I realized what should I have expected, with a 14 year gap it is right that the music as changed and not stagnated.

The songs themselves are alright some are good like Street of dreams, IRS and scraped but some aren't quite so good Better for instance which I prefer to skip. On balance however they are more good than bad songs.

Is it worth the wait?

Well as some of you know there as been a gap of 14 long years since the last album and, if your honest 14 songs can't be worth the wait.

Overall I think the album is more good than bad and would give it seven out of ten. It would have been nice if it had come sooner and, Slash was still there but what you gonna do.

Kyle

Stephen Fry's Podcasts

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I am very sorry to anyone reading who Doesn't like Stephen or is not interested for whatever reason, but this is all I feel I can write about as it is the only thing I've done this afternoon. I am also sorry if this sounds a little groverly.

Well like most people on earth I have a ipod, with the usual selection of music that I am terribly embarrassed about playing in public. But recently I have started to download podcasts and, by far and away the most listened to are those by Stephen Fry. I can't really explain why I find them so appealing maybe it's Stephen's wit and personality. Or something else.

But they are brilliantly interesting and, give me much pleasure when I occasional have to walk place to place, (something I will gladly do when the car breaks down!)

Thats my little appreciation post to Stephen and his podcasts, that I hope he will continue to do.

Kyle

Hi

Seeing as I am very busy. I will try to provide anyone interested with one blogular post a week.

First attempt at Blogging

Hi

Well this is my first attempt at entering the world of Blogging.

Anyone who is following me on Twitter, feel free to follow this.

Kyle