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ⓜ This week at the Specola (ⓜ = members only!)

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We've been wondering how to get more Sacred Space members, and more members logging in... and one suggestion was to have "subscribers-only" posts available. But what to put in those posts? Over the next couple of months we'll try out various kinds of content, to see which ones are most popular with our members.

Sunrise in June from the Papal Palace in Castel Gandolfo. This particular sunrise occurred during the Transit of Venus in 2012

One genre which I will have here are "Diary" posts – "inside baseball" accounts of what's happening at the Specola. This is my first attempt at such a post.

In order to read the rest of this post, you have to be a paid-up member of Sacred Space, and logged in as such!

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Br. Guy Consolmagno

About Br. Guy Consolmagno

Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ is Director of the the Vatican Observatory and President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation. A native of Detroit, Michigan, he earned undergraduate and masters' degrees from MIT, and a Ph. D. in Planetary Science from the University of Arizona; he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard and MIT, served in the US Peace Corps (Kenya), and taught university physics at Lafayette College before entering the Jesuits in 1989.

At the Vatican Observatory since 1993, his research explores connections between meteorites, asteroids, and the evolution of small solar system bodies, observing Kuiper Belt comets with the Vatican's 1.8 meter telescope in Arizona, and applying his measure of meteorite physical properties to understanding asteroid origins and structure. Along with more than 200 scientific publications, he is the author of a number of popular books including Turn Left at Orion (with Dan Davis), and most recently Would You Baptize an Extraterrestial? (with Father Paul Mueller, SJ). He also has hosted science programs for BBC Radio 4, been interviewed in numerous documentary films, appeared on The Colbert Report, and for more than ten years he has written a monthly science column for the British Catholic magazine, The Tablet.

Dr. Consolmagno's work has taken him to every continent on Earth; for example, in 1996 he spent six weeks collecting meteorites with a NASA team on the blue ice regions of East Antarctica. He has served on the governing boards of the Meteoritical Society; the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences (of which he was chair in 2006-2007); and IAU Commission 16 (Planets and Satellites). In 2000, the small bodies nomenclature committee of the IAU named an asteroid, 4597 Consolmagno, in recognition of his work. In 2014 he received the Carl Sagan Medal from the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences for excellence in public communication in planetary sciences.

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ⓜ This week at the Specola (ⓜ = members only!) — 1 Comment

  1. ” Over the next couple of months we’ll try out various kinds of content, to see which ones are most popular with our members.”

    I have an idea — let alumni of the Faith and Astronomy Workshops submit posts. Obviously, there would have to be some guidelines, but it would be a great way for the different classes to feel like a one group, share experiences, keep in touch, etc.

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