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A Vatican astronomer explains why science and religion are a match made in heaven

Installed on the second floor of a small building on the summit of Arizona's Mount Graham, Guy Consolmagno is multi-tasking. He's checking email on his laptop and listening to the Penguin Cafe Orchestra on his iPod, all the while keeping an eye on a bank of computer monitors. One floor up, nestled in a silvery-white dome, a telescope is trained on a potato-shaped chunk of rock and ice known as Haumea, which orbits the sun some six billion kilometres from Earth. Thin clouds have been drifting overhead since sundown, but if they dissipate, the telescope's digital camera will record changes in Haumea's brightness as it tumbles through the outer reaches of the solar system, offering Consolmagno and fellow astronomers hints about the structure and evolution of our planetary family.
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Vatican astronomer Brother Guy Consolmagno will address the Texas Astronomical Society of Dallas on Friday.
The meeting, hosted by the UT Dallas Physics Department, is at 7:30 p.m. in Kusch Auditorium in the Founders North building (FN 2.102).
The public is invited, and admission is free.

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