Seven long years end this September 24, when scientists from the POT go pick up the remains that the space probe, OSIRIS-REx, went to collect on the asteroid Bennu. The countdown is activated and the alarms are on. The American space agency did whatever help it could so that everything went smoothly, even that of the Vatican.
The Catholic Church? Yes, the same. Did they ask you for a prayer? It was the first thing that came to mind, underestimating the highest religious authority in the world. It happens that within the Roman entity there are priests who are experts in the study of astronomy.
In fact, according to a review Xataka There is an observatory installed at the top of the church of San Ignacio de Loyola, which the priests have used since the end of the last century to study the stars.
In this organization, a department that is within the Holy Catholic Church, there is a collection of asteroids, and one of the priests who directs it has a personalized device capable of analyzing any space rock they put in front of it.
So NASA turns to this scientist/religionist to help them perform an analysis of Bennu’s remains when they arrive on Earth. The aforementioned media reports that the name of this Jesuit priest is c.
Together with their colleagues from the Vatican, they designed this device capable of “measuring the density and porosity of meteorites, space rocks that have survived the fall from space through the atmosphere,” Xataka reports.
This is how science and faith, historical conflicting rivals in humanity, join forces to thoroughly study the formation of the asteroid Bennu, which could give us details of the formation of the Earth in this Solar System, or the creation of the worlds. in the entire universe.