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Vatican Astronomer Brother Guy Consolmagno To Speak At 11th Annual International Mars Society Convention
The Mars Society is pleased to announce that Vatican astronomer Brother Guy Consolmagno will be speaking at the 11th Annual International Mars Society Convention in Boulder, Colorado. Consolmagno will participate in a program called "Religion and Space Exploration" which will discuss what impact (if any) space exploration will have on religion.
What would the theological implications be of finding life on another planet? What has been the history of religion and space studies? We will be discussing these topics and many more aspects of this profound topic.
Dr. Consolmagno received his bachelor of science in 1974 and master of science in 1975 in Earth and Planetary Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. in Planetary Science from the University of Arizona in 1978. From 1978-83 he was a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at the Harvard College Observatory and MIT.
In 1983 he left MIT to join the US Peace Corps, where he served for two years in Kenya teaching physics and astronomy. 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 has served on the governing boards of the Meteoritical Society; the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) Division III, Planetary Systems Science (secretary, 2000 - present) and Commission 16, Moons and Planets (president, 2003-2006); and the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences (chair, 2006-2007).
He is the author of several books, including Turn Left at Orion, Worlds Apart, The Way to the Dwelling of Light, Brother Astronomer, and God's Mechanics.
Dr. Consolmagno is curator of the Vatican meteorite collection. His research explores the connections between meteorites and asteroids, and the origin and evolution of small bodies in the solar system. In 1996, he spent six weeks collecting meteorites with an NSF-sponsored team on the blue ice of Antarctica, and in 2000 he was honored by the IAU for his contributions to the study of meteorites and asteroids with the naming of asteroid 4597 Consolmagno.
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