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ARAÚJO, M. E., ARCUTRI, R. C., BEDRAN, M. L., DE FREITAS, L. R., and STOEGER, W. R.. "Integrating Einstein Field Equations in Observational Coordinates with Cosmological Data Functions: Nonflat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Cases," 2001, ApJ, 549, 716-720

ARAÚJO, M. E., REVEDA, S. R. M. M., and STOEGER, W. R.. "Perturbed Spherically Symmetric Dust Solution of the Field Equations in Observational Coordinates with Cosmological Data Function," 2001, ApJ, 560, 7-14

BOYLE, R. P., PHILIP, A. G. D., SMRIGLIO, F., DASGUPTA, A., KAZLAUSKAS, A., and STRAIZYS, V. "Calibrating the Stromvil Photometric System by M 67 at VATT," 2000, BAAS, 32, 1428

BRITT, D. T. and CONSOLMAGNO, G. J. "Asteroid Bulk Density: Implications for the Structure of Asteroids," 2001, Lunar Planet. Sci., XXXII, 1611

        . "Modeling the Structure of High Porosity Asteroids," 2001, Icarus, 152, 134- 139

BRITT, D. T., YEOMANS, D. K., and CONSOLMAGNO, G. J. "The Porosity of 433 Eros," 2001, Lunar Planet. Sci., XXXII, 1212

BRITT, D. T., YEOMANS, D. K., CONSOLMAGNO, G. J., and HOUSEN, K. R. "Asteroid Porosity and Internal Structure," 2001, Asteroids 2001 Abstract Volume, 74-75

BRITT, D. T., YEOMANS, D. K., HOUSEN, K. R., and CONSOLMAGNO, G. J. "Asteroid Porosity and Structure," 2001, in Asteroids III, ed. W. Bottke and R. Binzel (Tucson: University of Arizona Press), submitted

CARUANA, L. Fondamenti Filosofici delle Scienze Naturali, 2000 (Rome: Pontificia Università Gregoriana)

        . "Onniscienza divina e scienza moderna,," 2001, in Appunti di Teologia, Notiziario del Centro Pattaro di Venezia, XIV, no. 2, 11-12

CASANOVAS, J. "La Determinazione della Pasqua," 2001, Rivista Liturgica, 12, 177-188

        . "G. D. Cassini, élève de la Compagnie de Jésus," 2001, in Sur les traces des Cassini, Congrès national des sociétés historiques et scientifiques, ed. P. Brouzeng and S. Débarbat (Paris: Éditions du CTHS), 27-32

CONSOLMAGNO, G. J. Book review of Turn Right at Orion, by Mitchell Begelman, 2001, Meteoritics Plan. Sci., 36, 187-188

        . Book review of Asteroids: A History, by Curtis Peebles, 2001, Sky and Telescope, 101, 84-85

        . Vatican Observatory Meteorite Collection Catalogue, 2001 (Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana), 64 pages

        . "When Physics Meets Philosophy: Reflections on the Role of World-Views in Science and Religion," 2001, Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce (Philosophical Problems in Science), in press

CONSOLMAGNO, G. J. and BRITT, D. T. "Classifying Asteroids by Macroporosity," 2001, BAAS, in press

CONSOLMAGNO, G. J. and DYAR, M. D. "Rethinking the Magma Ocean," 2001, Program and Abstracts, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting

CORBALLY, C. J., GRAY, R. O., McFADDEN, M. T., ROBINSON, P., and GARRISON, R. F. "The Nearby Stars (NStars) Program at Appalachian State University, Vatican Observatory, and David Dunlap Observatory," 2000, BAAS, 32, 1392

CORSINI, E.M., PIZZELLA, A., PIGNATELLI, E., VEGA BELTRAN, J.C., BECKMAN, J. E., SCARLATA, M. C., BERTOLA, F., FUNES, J.G., and ZEILINGER, W.W. 2001, "Non-Circular Gas Motions in Bulges of S0-Sb Galaxies," 2001, in Galaxy Disks and Disk Galaxies, ed. José G. Funes, S. J. and Enrico Maria Corsini (San Francisco: ASP Conference Series, Vol. 230), p. 275

COYNE, G. "Introduction: Eschatology from a Cosmic Perspective," 2001, in The Far Future Universe, ed. G.F.R. Ellis (Philadelphia and London: Templeton Foundation Press)

        ."Origins and Creation," 2001, in First Steps in the Origin of Life in the Universe, eds. J. Chela-Flores, T. Owen, and F. Raulin (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers), 359-364

        ."Direzione della Specola Vaticana," 2001, in Attività della Santa Sede 2000, 1429-1439

        ."L'Immagine di Dio, autore della vita, nella cosmologia moderna," 2001, Giornale di Astronomia, 27, No. 3, 2

        ."L'Immagine di Dio, autore della vita, nella cosmologia moderna," 2001, in Anthropotes (Rome: Mursia), 327

        ."From Modern Research in Astrophysics to the Next Millennium for Mankind," 2001, in Science and the Future of Mankind: Science for Man and Man for Science (Vatican City: Pontifical Academy of Sciences Scripta Varia 99), 100

        ."Ferdinand Verbiest," 2001, in Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers), in press

        ."Religion and Science: Roman Catholic Issues," in Encyclopedia of Science and Religion, ed. J. Wentzel Vrede van Huyssteen (New York: Macmillan Reference USA), in press

COYNE, G. and OMIZZOLO, A. Wayfarers in the Cosmos: The Human Quest for Meaning (New York: The Crossroads Publishing Company), in press

DEMARET, J., HELLER, M., and SASIN, W. "Noncommutative Unification of General Relativity with Quantum Mechanics and Canonical Gravity Quantization," 2001, Revue des Questions Scientifiques, 172 (4), 357-370

ELLIS, G. F. R., STOEGER, W. R., MCEWAN, P., and DUNSBY, P. "Dynamics of Inflationary Universes with Positive Spatial Curvature," 2001, submitted for publication

ELLIS, G. F. R., MCEWAN, P., STOEGER, W. R., and DUNSBY, P. "Causality in Inflationary Universes with Positive Spatial Curvature," 2001, submitted for publication

FUNES, J. G. "Kinematics of the Ionized Gas in the Inner Regions of Disk Galaxies," 2001, PASP, 113, 257

FUNES, J. G. and CORSINI, E. M., ed. Galaxy Disks and Disk Galaxies, 2001 (San Francisco: ASP Conference Series, Vol. 230), 671 pages

FUNES, J. G., PIZZELLA, A., CORSINI, E. M., CAPPELLARI, M., SCARLATA, M. C., BERTOLA, F., and VEGA BELTRAN, J. C. "Position-Velocity Diagrams in the Inner Regions of Disk Galaxies," 2001, in Galaxy Disks and Disk Galaxies, ed. José G. Funes, S. J. and Enrico Maria Corsini (San Francisco: ASP Conference Series, Vol. 230), 277

FUNES, J. G., RAFANELLI, P., RICHTER, G., and VENNIK, J. "Interaction and Activity in Seyfert Galaxies," 2001, in Galaxy Disks and Disk Galaxies, ed. José G. Funes, S. J. and Enrico Maria Corsini (San Francisco: ASP Conference Series, Vol. 230), 501

GRAY, R.O. and CORBALLY, C. J. "A Spectroscopic Search for lambda Boötis and Other Peculiar A-Type Stars in Intermediate-Age Open Clusters," 2001, AJ, submitted

HAMUY, M., et al., with CORBALLY, C. J. "The Distance to SN 1999em from the Expanding Photosphere Method," 2001, ApJ, 558, 615

HELLER, M. Quantum Cosmology, 2001 (Warsaw: Prószyÿski i Ska), in Polish

        . "The Image of the World: Unique or One of Many?" in Changing Concepts of Nature at the Turn of the Millennium, Proceedings of the Plenary Session of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 2000 (Vatican City: Pontifical Academy of Sciences Scripta Varia 95), 37-44

        . "The Limits of Scientific Understanding," 2001, The UNESCO Courier, May 2001, 3 (republished in the German, Spanish, Italian, and Arabic versions of The UNESCO Courier)

        . "Illicit Jumps, the Logic of Creation," in Science and the Future of Mankind, 2001 (Vatican City: Pontifical Academy of Sciences Scripta Varia 99), 501-506

        . "Mathematics, the Language of Physics?," 2001, in Images of the World, Science, Humanities, Art, ed. A. Koj and P. Sztompka (Cracow: Jagiellonian University), 75-82

        . "Generalizations from Quantum Mechanics to God," in Quantum Mechanics: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action, 2001, ed. R.J. Russell, P. Clayton, K. Wegter-McNelly, and J. Polkinghorne (Vatican: Vatican Observatory Publications), 193-210

HELLER, M., LOANA, Z., MYCZKA , J., and SKOCZNY, W. Natural Sciences and Theology: Confrontation and Coexistence, 2001 (Cracow: OBI-Biblos), in Polish

HELLER, M., SASIN, W., and ODZRYGÓYDY, Z. "Noncommutative Quantum Dynamics," 2001, Gravitation and Cosmology, 7, 1-10

MAFFEO, S. La Specola Vaticana: Nove Papi, Una Missione, 2001 (Vatican City: Vatican Observatory Publications), 398 pages with 99 figures; revised and enlarged edition of Cento Anni della Specola Vaticana: Nove Papi, Una Missione, 1991 (Vatican City: Vatican Observatory Publications)

        . The Vatican Observatory: In the Service of Nine Popes, 2001, trans. George V. Coyne (Vatican City: Vatican Observatory Publications), 429 pages with 99 figures; revised and enlarged edition of In the Service of Nine Popes: 100 Years of the Vatican Observatory, 1991 (Vatican City: Vatican Observatory Publications)

MAGRI, C., CONSOLMAGNO, G. J., OSTRO, S. J., BENNER, L. A. M., and BEENY, B. R. "Radar Constraints on Asteroid Regolith Properties Using 433 Eros as Ground Truth," 2001, Meteorit. Planet. Sci., in press

PACHOLCZYK, A. G. and STOEGER, W. R. "Theory Transitions in Science: Correspondence, Archival Theories and Misnerian Truth," 2001, in Philosophy in Science, Vol. IX, 57-73.

PIGNATELLI, E., CORSINI, E. M., VEGA BELTRAN, J. C., SCARLATA, C., PIZZELLA, A., FUNES, J. G., ZEILINGER, W. W., BECKMAN, J. E., and BERTOLA, F. "Modelling Gaseous and Stellar Kinematics in the Disk Galaxies NGC 772, 3898 and 7782," 2001, MNRAS, 323, 188

PIZZELLA, A., CORSINI, E. M., VEGA BELTRAN, J. C., BECKMAN, J. E., FUNES, J. G., ZEILINGER, W. W., SARZI, M., and BERTOLA, F. "Kinematics of Gas and Stars in 20 Disk Galaxies," in Galaxy Disks and Disk Galaxies, ed. José G. Funes, S. J. and Enrico Maria Corsini (San Francisco: ASP Conference Series, Vol. 230), 279

RETTIG, T. W., WALSH, K., and CONSOLMAGNO, G. J. "Implied Evolutionary Differences of the Jovian Irregular Satellites from a BVR Color Survey," 2001, Icarus, in press

ROCHETTE, P., SAGNOTTI, L., CONSOLMAGNO, G., FOLCO, L., MARAS, A., MELLINI, M., PANZARINO, F., PESONEN, L., SERRA, R., and TERHO, M. "Magnetic Classification of Ordinary Chondrites," 2001, Meteorit. Planet. Sci., A176-A177

ROCHETTE, P., SAGNOTTI, L., CONSOLMAGNO, G., FOLCO, L., MARAS, A., PANZARINO, F., PESONEN, L., SERRA, R., and TERHO, M. "A Database of Magnetic Susceptibility of Stony Meteorites," 2001, Quaderni di Geofisca, in press

ROMANISHIN, W., TEGLER, S. C., RETTIG, T. W. , CONSOLMAGNO, G., and BOTTHOF, B. "1998SM165: A Large Kuiper Belt Object with an Irregular Shape," 2001, BAAS, in press

ROMANISHIN, W., TEGLER, S. C., RETTIG, T. W. , CONSOLMAGNO, G., and BOTTHOF, B. "1998SM165: A Large Kuiper Belt Object with an Irregular Shape," 2001, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 98, 11863-11866

RUSSELL, R. J., CLAYTON, P., WEGTER-McNELLY, K., and POLKINGHORNE, J., ed. Quantum Mechanics: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action, 2001 (Vatican: Vatican Observatory Publications), 345 pages

SARZI, M., BERTOLA, F., CAPPELLARI, M., CORSINI, E. M., FUNES, J. G., PIZZELLA, A., and VEGA BELTRAN, J. C. "The Orthogonal Bulge-Disk Decoupling in NGC 4698," 2001, Ap&SS, 276, 467

STOEGER, W. R., HELLER, M., and _YCIÑSKI, J., ed. Philosophy in Science, Vol IX, 2001, (Tucson: Pachart Publishing House), 224 pages

STOEGER, W. R. "What is 'the Universe' Which Cosmology Studies?" 2001, in Philosophy in Science, Vol. IX, 9-28

        . "Developments in Contemporary Cosmology: The Challenges and Opportunities for Religion," 2001, in press

        . "Cosmology and a Theology of Creation," 2001, SRCP Workshop, Adelaide, Australia, in press

        . "Science, the Laws of Nature, and Divine Action," 2001, SRCP Workshop, Adelaide, Australia, in press

        . "Epistemological and Ontological Issues Arising from Quantum Theory," 2001, in Quantum Mechanics: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action, 2001, ed. R. J. Russell, P. Clayton, K. Wegter-McNelly, and J. Polkinghorne (Vatican: Vatican Observatory Publications), 81-98

STRAIT, M. M. and CONSOLMAGNO, G. J. "Microscale Variations in Porosity across a Meteorite," 2001, Meteorit. Planet. Sci., A199

STRAIZYS, V., KAZLAUSKAS, A., BOYLE, R. P., PHILIP, A. G. D., and SPERAUSKAS, J. "Photoelectric Standards of the Stromvil Photometric System," 2001, BAAS, 33, 719

TERES, G. The Bible and Astronomy, 2001 (Budapest: Springer Verlag), Second Revised Edition

        . "Mystery of the Tablet of Sippar," 2001, Northern Mathematical Magazine (Normat) 49:1, 31

        . "The Temptation of Astrology," 2001, Uf Ember Magazin, II:3, 18, in Hungarian

        . "The Anthropic Principle," 2001, Cistercian Magazine

VEGA BELTRAN, J. C., PIZZELLA, A., CORSINI, E. M., FUNES, J. G., ZEILINGER, W. W., BECKMAN, J. E., and BERTOLA, F. "Kinematic Properties of Gas and Stars in 20 Disk Galaxies," 2001, A&A, 374, 394

VEGA BELTRAN, J. C., ZEILINGER, W. W., PIZZELLA, A., CORSINI, E. M., BERTOLA, F., FUNES, J. G., and BECKMAN, J. E. "Kinematics of Gas and Stars in 20 Disk Galaxies," 2001, Ap&SS, 276, 1201

VENNIK, J., FUNES, J. G., RAFANELLI, P., and RICHTER, G. M. "Structure of the Seyfert 2 Galaxy Mkn 955," 2001, Astronomische Gesellschaft Abstract Series, 18, 150

 

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