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BOYLE, R. P., JANUSZ, R., KAZLAUSKAS, A., and PHILIP, A. G. DAVIS. "CCD Strömvil Photometry of M 37," 2001, BAAS, 33, 1388

BOYLE, R. P., LAUGALYS, V., and PHILIP, A. G. D. "Flatfield Correction by Differential CCD Photometry in M 67," 2002, BAAS, 34, No. 4

BRITT D. T., YEOMANS D. K., HOUSEN K. R., and CONSOLMAGNO, G. J. "Asteroid Porosity and Structure," 2002, in Asteroids III, ed. W. Bottke and R. Binzel (Tucson: University of Arizona Press), in press.

BRITT, D. T. and CONSOLMAGNO, G. J. "Stony Meteorite Porosities and Densities: A Review of the Data Through 2001," 2002, Meteorit. Planet. Sci., in press.

BUDZIK, S. and HELLER, M., eds., The Future in Unity (Questiones ad disputandum - 1), 2002 (Tarnów: Biblos), in Polish.

CARREIRA, E. M. "Il Principio Antropico," 2002, Civiltà Cattolica, I, 435-446

CASANOVAS, J. "Copernico," 2002, entry in Dizionario Interdisciplinare di Scienza e Fede, ed. Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti and Alberto Strumia (Vatican City: Urbaniana University Press, Città Nuova) II, 1641-1653

____ . "Kepler," 2002, entry in Dizionario Interdisciplinare di Scienza e Fede, ed.: Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti and Alberto Strumia (Vatican City: Urbaniana University Press, Città Nuova) II, 1882-1893

CONSOLMAGNO, G. J., ed., "Commission 16: Physical Study of Planets and Satellites," 2002, in Reports on Astronomy, Vol. XXVA , ed. H. Rickman, in press.

CONSOLMAGNO, G. J. and BRITT, D. T. "Low Density Materials and Asteroidal Macroporosity," 2002, Lunar Planet. Sci. XXXIII, 1701

____ . "Three Points on Meteorite Porosities," 2002, Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 37, A38

CONSOLMAGNO G. J. and STRAIT, M. M. "The Density and Porosity of Martian Meteorites," 2002, in Program and Abstracts, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting

CONSOLMAGNO, G. J., WEIDENSCHILLING, S. J., and BRITT D. T. "Forming Well Compacted Meteorites in the Solar Nebula," 2002, BAAS, 34, 890

CORBALLY, C. J. "When Astronomers and Environmentalists Clash over a Sky Island," 2002, Studies in Science & Theology, Vol. 9, accepted

COYNE, G. V. "Specola Vaticana," 2002, entry in Dizionario Interdisciplinare di Scienza e Fede, ed. Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti and Alberto Strumia (Vatican City: Urbaniana University Press, Città Nuova) II, 1323-1329

____ . "Seeking the Future: A Theological Perspective," 2002, in The Far Future Universe: Eschatology from a Cosmic Perspective, ed. G. F. R. Ellis (Philadelphia and London: Templeton Foundation Press) 12-19

____ . "Direzione della Specola Vaticana," 2002, Attività della Santa Sede 2001, 1338-1351

____ . "Modern Cosmology, A Resource for Elementary School Education," 2002, in The Challenges for Science: Education for the 21st Century (Vatican City: Pontifical Academy of Sciences Scripta Varia 100)

____ . "Condizioni Fisiche Macroscopiche per la Vita," 2002, in Epistemología de las Ciencias, ed. L. B. Archideo (Buenos Aires: CIAFIC Ediciones) 119-138

CRISTIANI, S., GRAZIAN, A., OMIZZOLO, A., and CORBALLY, C. "Mining the Local Universe: The QSO Space Density," 2001, in Mining the Sky, Proceedings of the MPA/ESO/MPE Workshop, Garching, Germany, 31 July-4 August, 2000, ed. A. J. Banday, S. Zaroubi, and M. Bartelmann (Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag), 154

ELLIS, G. F. R., STOEGER, W. R., McEWAN, P., and DUNSBY, P., "Dynamics of Inflationary Universes with Positive Spatial Curvature," 2002, Gen. Rel. & Grav., 34, 1445-1459

ELLIS, G. F. R., McEWAN, P., STOEGER, W., and DUNSBY, P., "Causality in Inflationary Universes with Positive Spatial Curvature," 2002, Gen. Rel. & Grav., 34, 1461-1481

FUNES, J. G., CORSINI, E. M., CAPPELLARI, M., PIZZELLA, A., VEGA BELTRAN, J. C., SCARLATA, C., and BERTOLA, F. "Position-Velocity Diagrams of Ionized Gas in the Inner Regions of Disk Galaxies," 2002, A&A, 388, 50

____ . "An Atlas of Position-Velocity Diagrams in the Inner Regions of Disk Galaxies," 2001, BAAS, 33, 1379

GRAY, R.O., and CORBALLY, C.J. "A Spectroscopic Search for 8 Boötis and Other Peculiar A-type Stars in Intermediate-Age Open Clusters," 2002, AJ, 124, 989

GRAY, R. O., CORBALLY, C. J., GARRISON, R. F., McFADDEN, M. T., ROBINSON, P. E., and O'DONOGHUE, A. A. "The Nearby Stars (NStars) Program at Appalachian State University, Vatican Observatory, and David Dunlap Observatory," 2001, BAAS, 33, 1437

GRAZIAN, A., OMIZZOLO, A., CORBALLY, C., CRISTIANI, S., HAEHNELT, M. G., and VANZELLA, E. "The Asiago-ESO/RASS QSO Survey II. The Southern Sample," 2002 AJ, 124, 2955

HELLER, M. The Meaning of Life and the Meaning of the Universe, 2002 (Tarnów: Biblos), in Polish

____ . Time and Causality, 2002 (Lublin, Poland: Scientific Society of the Catholic University of Lublin), in Polish

_____ . The Beginning is Everywhere, 2002 (Warsaw: Prószÿnski i Ska), in Polish

____ . "Genesis of Time," 2001, in Time and Causality, ed. M. Heller and J. Mÿczka (Kraków: OBI; Tarnów: Biblos) 70-83, in Polish

____ . "Between Theology and Science," 2001, Tarnowskie Studia Teologiczne, XX/2, 3-11, in Polish

____ . "Generalizations: From Quantum Mechanics to God," 2001, in Quantum Mechanics: Scientific Perspective on Divine Action, ed. R. J. Russell, P. Clayton, K. Wegter-McNelly, and J. Polkinghorne (Vatican City: Vatican Observatory Publications) 191-210

____ . "Where the Universe Came From?" 2002, Ðwiat Nauki (Polish edition of Scientific American) 130, 38-47, June 2002, in Polish

____ . "Evolution of Concepts in Physics," 2002, in Nauka-Religia-Dzieje, XI, ed. J. A. Janik (Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press) 49-62, in Polish

____ . "Science and Faith in Interaction," 2002, in The Human Search for Truth: Philosophy, Science, Theology (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph's University Press) 98-107

. "The Ultimate Theory and the Laws of Physics," 2002, Tarnowskie Studia Teologiczne, 21/1-2, 113-117, in Polish

____ . "Physics and Philosophy in the 20th Century," 2001, Organon 28/30, 95- 110

____ . "Looking for the Meaning," 2002, Znak 569, 72-89, in Polish

____ . "Time of the Universe," 2002, in The Far-Future of the Universe: Eschatology from a Cosmic Perspective, ed. G. F. R. Ellis (Philadelphia-London: Templeton Foundation Press) 53-64

HELLER, M. and MYCZKA, J., eds. Time and Causality, 2001 (Kraków: OBI; Tarnów: Biblos), in Polish.

HELLER, M. and SASIN, W. "Differential Groupoids and Their Application to the Theory of Spacetime Singularities," 2002, Intern. J. Theor. Phys. 41, 919-937

HELLER, M., SASIN, W., and ODRZYGÓÏDÏ, Z. "Noncommutative Quantum Dynamics," 2001, Gravitation and Cosmology 7, 135-139

____ . "The Classical Singularity Problem: History and Current Research with Historical Development of Modern Cosmology," 2001, in ASP Conference Series, Vol. 252, ed. V. J. Martinez, V. Trimble, and M. J. Pons-Borderia (San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific), 121-144

____ . "Time and Physics: A Noncommutative Revolution," 2002, in A Collection of Polish Works on Philosophical Problems of Time and Spacetime, Synthese Library, vol. 309, ed. H. Eilstein (Dordrecht-Boston-London: Kluwer Academic Publishers), 47-56

____ . "Generalized Symmetries and Time," 2002, in Quantum Theory and Symmetries, ed. E. Kapuñcik and A. Horzela (New Jersey-London-Singapore-Hong Kong: World Scientific), 66-73.

____ . "Geometric Structure of The Big Bang," 2002, in Extensions of Quantum Physics, eds. A. Horzela and E. Kapuñcik (Montreal: Apeiron), 103-113

MAFFEO, S. "Giuseppe Lais," 2002, in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana), in press

MINNITI, D., REJKUBA, M., FUNES, J. G., and AKIYAMA, S. "Optical Counterparts of X-Ray Point Sources Observed by CHANDRA in NGC5128: 23 New Globular Clusters", 2002, ApJ, submitted

O'DONOGHUE, A. A. "Mountain Skies," 2002, Adirondac Magazine (published by the Adirondack Mountain Club, Lake George, NY), March-April, July-August, and November-December

OMIZZOLO, A. "Astronomia," 2002, entry in Dizionario Interdisciplinare di Scienza e Fede, ed. Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti and Alberto Strumia, (Vatican City: Urbaniana University Press, Città Nuova), I, 121-131

____ . ed., Origini: Atti dei Seminari,Università di Padova, 2002 (Padua: SARGON Editrice)

ROCHETTE, P., SAGNOTTI, L., CHEVRIER, V., CONSOLMAGNO, G., DENISE, M., FOLCO, L., OSETE, M., and PESONEN, L. "Magnetic Classification of Meteorites and Asteroid Probing," 2002, Lunar Planet. Sci. XXXIII, 1117

ROCHETTE, P. , SAGNOTTI, L., BOUROT-DENISE, M., CONSOLMAGNO, G., FOLCO, L., GATTACCECA, J., OSETE, M., and PESONEN, L. "Magnetic Classification of Stony Meteorites: 1. Ordinary Chondrites," 2003, Meteorit. Planet. Sci., in press

RUSSELL, S. S., CONSOLMAGNO, G. J., and JEFFRIES, T. E. "Rare Earth Element Distributions in Lunar Meteorites: Clues to Their History," 2002, Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 37, A124

SMRIGLIO, F., DASGUPTA, A. K., and BOYLE, R. P. "CCD Photometry in the Vilnius System in the Vicinity of the Globular Cluster M 56," 2002, A&A, 388, 149

STOEGER, W. R. "Report on the Theology and Natural Sciences Group Session: God After Darwin, Doing Theology in Light of Evolution," 2001, Proceedings of the 56th Annual Convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America, ed. R. C. Sparks, 162-163

____ . "Developments in Contemporary Cosmology: The Challenges and Opportunities to Religion," 2002, in Contemporary Science and Religion in Dialogue: Challenges and Opportunities, ed. J. Kozhamthadam, (Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth, Pune, India: ASSR Publications), 46-97

____ . "Science, the Laws of Nature and Divine Action," 2002, in Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cosmology and Biological Evolution, ed. H. D. Regan and M. W. Worthing (Adelaide, Australia: Australian Theological Forum), 117-127

____ . "Cosmology and Theology of Creation," in 2002, in Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cosmology and Biological Evolution, ed. H. D. Regan and M. W. Worthing (Adelaide, Australia: Australian Theological Forum), 128-145

____ . "Cosmologia," 2002, entry in Dizionario Interdisciplinare di Scienza e Fede, ed. Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti and Alberto Strumia (Vatican City: Urbaniana University Press, Città Nuova), I, 285-299

____ . As Leis da Natureza: Conhecimento humano e ação divina, 2002, translation into Portuguese of The Laws of Nature, the Range of Human Knowledge and Divine Action [Tarnów, Poland: Biblos, 1996], (São Paulo, Brazil: Paulinas) 153 pp

____ . "Reflections on the Interaction of My Knowledge of Cosmology and My Christian Belief," 2002, CTNS Bulletin, 22.1, 9-18

____ . "Cosmology: VI Modern History of Science," entry in the new edition of Religion im Geschicte und Gegenwart, ed. H. D. Betz, et al. (J. C. B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck] Publishing House), to be published

____ . "Age of the Universe," "Eschatology," "Field Theory," "Grand Unified Theory," "New Physics," "String Theory," "Superstrings," and "Thermodynamics, Second Law of," entries in Encyclopedia of Science and Religion, Editor in Chief: J. Wenzel Vrede van Huyssteen (Macmillan Reference USA), in press

____ . "What is 'the Universe' Which Cosmology Studies," in Ian Barbour Festschrift Volume, in press

____ . Book review of At Home in the Universe by David Toolan, 2002, Spiritus, 2, 1 (Spring), 119-123

____ . Book Review of Seeing Double: Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy and Literature by Peter Pesic (Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 2002), The Journal of Religion, to be published

STRAIT, M. M. and CONSOLMAGNO, G. J. "Microcrack Porosity in the L/LL Meteorite Knyahinya: How Homogeneous?" 2002, Lunar Planet. Sci. XXXIII, 1711

____ . "The Nature and Origin of Meteorite Porosity: Evidence From Thin Section Analysis," Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 37, A137

STRAIZYS, V., CORBALLY, C. J., KAZLAUSKAS, A., and CERNIS, K. "A Comparison of Photometric and Spectral Classification of Some Stars in Perseus," 2002, Baltic Astronomy, 11, 261

TERES, G., The Bible and Astronomy, 2002, Third Revised and Enlarged Edition (Oslo: Solum Forlag)

UGLESICH, R., CROTTS, A. P .S., BALTZ, E., DEJONG, J., TOMANEY, A., BOYLE, R., CORBALLY, C., and GOULD, A. "Evidence for Halo Microlensing in M 31," 2002, BAAS, 34, No. 4

UPGREN, A. R., SPERAUSKAS, J., and BOYLE, R. P. "Space Motions of Low-Mass Stars. III.," 2002, Baltic Astron., 11, 91

YOUNG, A., RUDNICK, L., KATZ-STONE, D. M., and O'DONOGHUE, A. A. "Electron Population Aging Models for Wide-Angle Tails," 2002, New Astronomy Reviews, 46, 105-107

ZDANAVICIUS, J., STRAIZYS, V., and CORBALLY, C. J. "Interstellar Extinction Law Near the Galactic Equator Along the Camelopardalis, Perseus and Cassiopeia Border," 2002, A&A 392, 295

 

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