WEST YORKSHIRE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Was proud to receive The Popes Astronomer!! on October 11th 2005

with the brilliant talk:

WHY DOES THE POPE HAVE AN ASTRONOMER?

by

BROTHER GUY CONSOLMAGNO.

 VATICAN OBSERVATORY.

Brother Guy Cosolmagno at the Grange club

Guy Consolmagno, born September 19, 1952, in Detroit, Michigan, obtained 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 1978-80 he was a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at the Harvard College Observatory, and from 1980-1983 continued as postdoc and lecturer at MIT.

He has co-authored four astronomy books: Turn Left at Orion, Worlds Apart, The Way to the Dwelling of Light and Brother Astronomer, Adventures of a Vatican Scientist.

Consolmagno serves as curator of the Vatican Meteorite collection, one of the largest in the world.

His research explores the connections between meteorites and asteroids, and the origin and evolution of small bodies in the solar system. Consolmagno has been honored by the naming of an asteroid after him.

Today, Dr. Consolmagno divides his time between Tucson, Arizona, where he observes asteroids and Kuiper Belt comets with the Vatican's 1.8 meter telescope on Mt. Graham, and Castel Gandolfo, Italy, home of the Vatican meteorites.