Featuring Fr. Chris Corbally (the astronomer, not the asteroid!) Fr. Chris Corbally SJ Just for our paying members… on July 4, a week from when we are posting this, we’ll be holding our traditional (this is our second one, so it’s a tradition now!) on-line meetup where we get to know and chat with each other, and with astronomers from the Vatican Observatory. This month will feature Fr. Chris Corbally SJ, who will describe what it’s like to have an asteroid named for you, and tell us stories of his 50 years as an astronomer… such as, the time he was on the roof of the observatory in Castel Gandolfo while Pope Paul VI was inside talking to the Apollo 11 astronauts… the time he was tasked with writing up the definition of a planet for the IAU… the time when… What date? Saturday, July 4: this is Full Moon in Tucson, which occurs at 9:44 pm Tucson time… that’s actually early Sunday morning in the East Coast, but as we warned you, we’re going by Tucson time. What time? As before, these meetups will happen around lunch time in North America: in particular, 10 am Tucson time, which is 1 pm Eastern Daylight Time. (Tucson does not go on daylight time so if this becomes popular enough to continue into the wintertime we may have to adjust this time accordingly.) Explaining the voting procedure on Pluto in 2006 were Rick Binzel, Fr. Chris Corbally SJ (of the Vatican Observatory) and Jocelyn Bell Burnell [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!] Guy J Consolmagno is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. This meeting was created in a non-BAA environment and…
The July Full Moon Meetup!
