Asteroids named for Pope Leo XIII and Vatican astronomers | International
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Asteroids named for Pope Leo XIII and Vatican astronomers | International
CASTEL GANDOLFO (OSV News): The Vatican Observatory announced in an April 29 press release that an asteroid has been named in honour of Pope Leo XIII, who formally reestablished the observatory in 1891. The Pope Leo XIII asteroid is one of four discovered by Lithuanian astronomer, Kazimieras Cernis and Jesuit Father Richard P. Boyle, aCatholic News of the Week International
New asteroids named for pope who led calendar reform, Jesuit astronomers
By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Three Jesuit astronomers and the 16th-century pope who commissioned the Gregorian calendar have recently been honored with having asteroids named after them. The new additions include: “562971 Johannhagen,” honoring Austrian Jesuit Father Johann Hagen, who was serving as director of the Georgetown University Observatory when Pope Pius X called him to Rome in 1906 to be the first Jesuit director of the new Vati…
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