[AZ-Observing] Re: Tuesday (tomorrow) Brother Guy Consolmagno speaks a t Lunar & Planetary Lab in Tucson
- From: "Wayne (aka Mr. Galaxy)" <mrgalaxy@xxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:13:41 GMT
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I wish I were within driving distance, Delores, because Brother Guy is one of
my favorite speakers. I really enjoyed his talk at the TAAA's 50th Anniversary
dinner, lo these many years ago. Unfortunately, work has me on the East Coast
for a little while longer. Enjoy the talk!
I strongly encourage everyone who can to go see and hear Brother Guy's
presentation.
Clear skies,
Wayne (aka Mr. Galaxy)
President, Huachuca Astronomy Club
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From: "D. Hill" <dhill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: sac-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, "'Terry Wilkinson'" <W7NS@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [AZ-Observing] Tuesday (tomorrow) Brother Guy Consolmagno speaks at
Lunar & Planetary Lab in Tucson
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:53:48 -0700
If you are within driving distance of Tucson, this LPL50 Anniversary
Alumnus Lecture lecture is well worth the drive and it is free! Brother
Guy always gives interesting and entertaining talks! His experience and
interests have spanned many Solar System objects and astronomical observing.
Regards to all,
Dolores Hill
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Tuesday, 24 Aug 2010
7:00 pm --- 8:00 pm
Kuiper Space Sciences, 1629 E. University Blvd., Room 308 University of
Arizona, Tucson
_From Hawthorne House to the Papal Palace: Adventures of a Vatican
Planetary Scientist _
Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ (LPL Ph.D. 1978) has worked as a planetary
astronomer on every continent, from teaching at the University of
Nairobi to collecting meteorites in Antarctica. For this lecture, he'll
share some of his adventures along the way, including how he helped
write the first graduate student plays (and set up the grad student
residence Hawthorne House), information about his space club at the
Starehe Boys' Centre in Kenya, and tales of his intimate dealings with
aliens (well, alien rocks, at least) in the bowels of the Vatican.
Dr. Consolmagno is curator of the Vatican meteorite collection in Castel
Gandolfo. His research explores the connections between meteorites and
asteroids, and the origin and evolution of small bodies in the solar
system. After obtaining his Ph.D. in Planetary Sciences from the
University of Arizona in 1978, Brother Consolmagno worked as a
postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at the Harvard College Observatory, and
from 1980-1983 continued as postdoc and lecturer at MIT. In 1983 he left
MIT to join the US Peace Corps, where he served for two years in Kenya
teaching physics and astronomy. Upon his return to the US in 1985 he
became an assistant professor of physics at Lafayette College, in
Easton, Pennsylvania, where he taught until his entry into the Jesuit
order in 1989. He took vows as a Jesuit brother in 1991, and
studied philosophy and theology at Loyola University, Chicago, and
physics at the University of Chicago, before his assignment to the
Vatican Observatory in 1993.
Dr. Consolmagno studies the nature and evolution of small bodies in the
solar system. His work in the 1970s on the moons of the
outer solar system predicted many of the features later discovered by
the Voyager and Galileo spacecraft, including the first published
suggestion of Europan sub-crustal oceans with the possibility of life.
Models for the geochemical evolution of lunar basalts and basaltic
meteorites eventually led to the identification, on geochemical grounds,
of asteroid Vesta as the parent body of the eucrite, diogenite, and
howardite meteorites. His doctoral thesis on the role of electromagnetic
forces in chemical fractionations of the early solar system pioneered
the field of gravito-electrodynamics, the behavior of dust subjected to
both gravitational and electromagnetic forces, and he was the first
person to apply this concept to describe the dynamics of Jupiter's dust
ring. Dr. Consolmagno's present research is centered on understanding
the origin of moons, meteorites, asteroids, dwarf planets, and
trans-Neptunian objects. One continuing project is measuring the
density, porosity, and magnetic properties of meteorites, with
applications to understanding the lithification of meteorites and the
structure of their asteroidal parent bodies. He is also involved in
telescope observations measuring the spectra of small bodies in the
outer solar system.
Brother Consolmagno has authored/coauthored several books, including:
Turn Left at Orion (with Dan M. Davis; Cambridge University Press,
1989); Worlds Apart (with Martha W. Schaefer; Prentice Hall, 1993); The
Way to the Dwelling of Light (U of Notre Dame Press, 1998);
Brother Astronomer (McGraw Hill, 2000); God's Mechanics (Jossey-Bass,
2007), and The Heavens Proclaim: Astronomy and the Vatican (VO
Publications, 2009).
This talk is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30 pm.
For additional information visit http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/outreach/
The Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
Fifty years of Excellence in Research, Education, and Discovery: 1960-2010
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