The Vatican Observatory, Castel Gandolfo: 80th Anniversary Celebration
This book presents contributions from an internal symposium organized to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Specola Vaticana, or Vatican Observatory, in the Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo. The aim is to provide an overview of the scientific and cultural work being undertaken at the Observatory t...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2018
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| Series: | Astrophysics and space science proceedings ;
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Table of Contents:
- Pictures of the two Stamps for the 80th Anniversary Symposium
- Pope’s address at the Papal Audience
- Preface
- Introduction
- Planetary Science
- 1) 108 years of Meteorites at the Vatican Observatory (Robert Macke)
- 2) Physical characterization of fast rotator NEOs (Jean-Baptiste Kikwaya Eluo).- Stellar evolution and Stars.- 3) The Enigmatic Lambda Boötis Stars (Chris Corbally)
- 4) A New near infrared survey of the inner regions of the Milky Way (Dante Minniti)
- 5) Some Recent Investigations in Stellar Evolution at the Specola Vaticana (David Brown)
- 6) The Vilnius Photometry System at the Vatican Observatory (Robert Janusz, and Richard Boyle).- Galaxies.- 7) WINGS, a wide field nearby galaxy cluster survey: some results (Alessandro Omizzolo)
- 8) The Stellar Haloes of Galaxies (Richard De Souza).- Cosmology.- 9) A String Theory Based f(R)-Gravity with Duality Transformations (Gabriele Gionti)
- 10) Creation of Matter in a Noncommutativ e Universe (Michael Heller)
- 11) Testing new physics with polarized light: cosmic bire-fringence (Matteo Galaverni).- Education and Outreach.- 12) Some Rules for interacting with Journalists (Guy Consolamagno)
- History of Astronomy
- 13) The Rome historical Cauchoix telescope recovered (Aldo Altamore)
- 14) Stellar Populations: The Vatican Meeting in 1957 (Jose Funes)
- 15 The Leap Second Debate and the Lessons from Lessons from Timekeeping History (Paul Gabor)
- 16) A Short History of the Vatican Observatory (Ileana Chinnici)
- Science-Philosophy-Theology.- 17) Some reflections on the Influence and Role of Scientific Thought in the Context of the New Evangelization (G. Tanzella-Nitti)
- 18) The philosophy of expertise: the case of Vatican astronomers (Louis Caruana)
- 19) Furnishing Creation (Paul Mueller).- Conclusion