Faculty Lecture: Brother Guy Consolmagno

Held on February 5, 2008, UD Rome's first Faculty Lecture Series event of the Spring 2008 semester featured Dr. Guy Consolmagno, S.J., a distinguished astronomer and curator of the meteorite collection at the Vatican Observatory in Gastelgandolfo (Italy). Dr. Consolmagno has degrees from M.I.T. and the University of Arizona, and his list of career achievements and honors includes the authorship of five books, research appointments at the Goddard Space Center, the Harvard College Observatory and M.I.T., and the discovery of a new asteroid carrying with his name (called asteroid 4597 Consolmagno). Dr. Consolmagno's current research is concerned with the origin of moons, meteorites, asteroids, dwarf planets, and Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) in the solar system. His address to students and staff at UD Rome reflected yet another of his research interests: the debt which modern science owes to people of faith in general and members of the Catholic clergy more particularly. The title of the lecture was, "Church and Science: Or, why are there domes on the Papal Palace?"


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