RE: [asa] Vatican Astronomer Replaced

At 12:23 AM 8/22/2006, Hofmann, Jim wrote:

>Is there a link available to this Zenit news release?
>
>Jim Hofmann

@ Yes. ~ Janice

http://www.zenit.org/english/
Code: ZE06082001

Date: 2006-08-20

New Vatican Astronomer Appointed

VATICAN CITY, AUG. 20, 2006
(<http://www.zenit.org>Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI
appointed Jesuit Father José Gabriel Funes as the
new director of the Vatican Astronomical
Observatory, replacing Jesuit Father George Coyne.

Father Coyne, a native of Baltimore, Maryland,
had been director of the observatory since 1978.

The Vatican press office announced the new director on Saturday.

Father Funes, 43, is a native of Cordoba,
Argentina. He earned a degree in astronomy from the University of Cordoba.

He studied theology in Rome at the Gregorian
University, and earned a doctorate in astronomy
from the University of Padua in 2000. Father
Funes has done considerable research on disk galaxies.

Pope Gregory XIII established the Vatican
Astronomical Observatory to study the elements
necessary to reform the liturgical calendar, which took place in 1582.

After a long period of inactivity, Pope Leo XIII
founded the new Vatican Astronomical Observatory
in 1891. The main headquarters of the Vatican
Observatory is in Castel Gandolfo.

In 1981, when the Roman skies became too luminous
for observation, the Vatican Observatory Research
Group was founded in Mount Graham, Arizona.

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