Newly-Discovered Asteroids Named After Jesuits, And A Pope

Newly-Discovered Asteroids Named After Jesuits, And A Pope

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By Jonah McKeown

The Vatican Observatory announced this week the naming of four newly-discovered asteroids after notable Catholics, including Pope Gregory XIII, who began the tradition of papal astronomers and observatories.

Christopher Graney, a scientist at the Vatican Observatory, said in a press release that the...

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