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Publications

(The names of Vatican Observatory staff and visiting astronomers are noted in boldface.)

ABT, H. .A., and CORBALLY, C. J. "The Maximum Ages of Trapezium Systems," 1997, in Visual Double Stars: Formation, Dynamics and Evolutionary Tracks, ed. J. A. Docobo et al., Ap&SS (Conf. Ser.) (Dordrecht: Kluwer), 127-131

ARAUJO, M. E., and STOEGER, W. R. "The Exact Spherically Symmetric Solution of the Field Equations in Observational Coordinates with Cosmological Data Function," 1998, Classical and Quantum Gravity, submitted

BENNETT, S. M., and MOSS, C. "H-alpha Objective Prism Survey of Abell 1060," 1998, A&AS, 132, 55

BERTOLA, F., CAPPELLARI, M., FUNES, J. G., CORSINI, E. M., PIZZELLA, A., and VEGA BELTRAN, J. C. "Circumnuclear Keplerian Disks in Galaxies," 1998, ApJ, 509, L93

BOYLE, R. P., KAZLAUSKAS, A., VANSEVICIUS, V., STRAIZYS, V., VRBA, F. J., SUDZIUS, J., and SMRIGLIO, F. "CCD Photometry of the M 67 Cluster in the Vilnius Photometric System," 1998, Baltic Astron., 7, 369-391

BRITT, D. T., and CONSOLMAGNO, G. J. "Dark Asteroids and Dark Meteorite Densities," 1998, Lunar Science XXIX, 1577-1578

CONSOLMAGNO, G. J. "Stargate," 1997, COMPANY, 15, 3-6

------. 1998, The Way to the Dwelling of Light, How Physics Illuminates Creation (Vatican City: Vatican Observatory Publications. Distributed by the University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Ind.)

------. "Brother Astronomer: A Day in the Life," 1998, Ad Astra, 26-30

------. "A Rain of Comet Dust," 1998, in The Impact Book, ed. C. Sumners, C. Allen, and J. Allen (New York: McGraw-Hill), in press

------."Il fascino di scrutare le stelle e i pianeti," review of Atlante dell'Universo by P. Bianucci and W. Ferreri (Utet Publishers), 1998, Letture, Vol. 547

CONSOLMAGNO, G. J., and BRITT, D. T. "The Density and Porosity of Meteorites from the Vatican Collection," 1998, Meteorit. Planet. Sci., 33, 1231-1242

------. "Ordinary Chondrite Model Porosities and the Structure of Asteroids," 1998, Lunar Science XXIX, 1730-1731

CONSOLMAGNO, G. J., BRITT, D. T., and STOLL, C. P. "Metamorphism, Shock, and Porosity: Why Are There Meteorites?" 1998, Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 33, A23-A24

------. "The Porosities of Ordinary Chondrites: Models and Interpretation," 1998, Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 33, 1221-1230

CONSOLMAGNO, G. J., PESONEN, L. J., BRITT, D. T., FLYNN, G. J., KLÖCK, W., KUOPPAMKI, K., MOORE, L. B., and TERHO, M. "Densities and Porosities of Meteorites and IDP's: Implications for Asteroids," 1998, BAAS, 30, 1026

CORBALLY, C. J., Editor, Standard Star Newsletter No. 24, 1998, for IAU Working Group on Standard Stars

------. Editor, Standard Star Newsletter No. 25, 1998, for IAU Working Group on Standard Stars

------. "SETI and the Limits of Science," review of The Biological Universe: The Twentieth-Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate and the Limits of Science, by Steven J. Dick (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 1998, J. Hist. Astron., 29, 188

CORSINI, E. M., PIZZELLA, A., FUNES, J. G., VEGA BELTRAN, J. C., and BERTOLA, F. "The Circumnuclear Ring of Ionized Gas in NGC 3593," 1998, A&A, 337, 80

CORSINI, E. M., PIZZELLA, A., SARZI, M., CINZANO, P., VEGA BELTRAN, J. C., FUNES, J. G., BERTOLA, F., PERSIC, M., and SALUCCI, P. 1998, "Dark Matter in Early-Type Spiral Galaxies: NGC 2179 and NGC 2775," Astron. and Ap., in press

COYNE, G. V. "Aspetti Religiosi della Cosmologia Moderna," 1998, Studium, n. 2/3, 341

------. "La Cosmologia: L'Universo in Evoluzione," 1998, Polaris (Giornale dell'Associazione Tuscolana di Astronomia), 9, 6-11

------. "Evolution and the Human Person," 1998, in Science and Theology: The New Consonance, ed. T. Peters (Berkeley, Calif.: Westview Press), 153-161

------. "Il Cosmo, la Vita, il Divino," 1998, Coscienza, 2, 18-21

------. "Interrogativi Religiosi della Cosmologia Moderna," 1998, La Civiltà Cattolica, 3542, 142-151

------. "The Concept of Matter and Materialism in the Origin and Evolution of Life," 1998, in Exobiology: Matter, Energy and Information in the Origin and Evolution of Life in the Universe, ed. J. Chela-Flores and F. Raulin (Dordrecht: Kluwer), 71-80

------. "Direzione della Specola Vaticana," 1998, Attività della Santa Sede 1997, 1381-1396

GRAY, R. O., and CORBALLY, C. J. "The Incidence of Lambda Bootis Stars among Pre-Main Sequence A-Type Stars," (abstract), 1997, BAAS, 29, 1286

------. "The Incidence of Lambda Bootis Stars via an Extension of the MK Spectral Classification System to Very Young A-Type Stars," 1998, AJ, 116, 2530

HELLER, M. "The Abuse of Cosmology," 1997, Mercury, 26, 19-21

------. "Cosmic History and Its Limits: History of the Universe in the History of Culture," 1997, in Science in the Context of Human Culture II, ed. G. B. Marini Bertolo Marconi and P. Poupard (Vatican City: Pontifical Academy of Sciences Scripta Varia), 45-58

------. "Science and Transcendence, Studies in Science and Theology," 1996, in The Concept of Nature, Part II, ed. H. Gregersen, M. W. S. Parsons, and C. Wassermann (Geneva: Labor and Fides), 3-12

------. "A Program for Theology of Science, Studies in Science and Theology," 1996, in The Concept of Nature, Part II, ed. H. Gregersen, M. W. S. Parsons, and C. Wassermann (Geneva: Labor and Fides), 41-44

------. "Cosmological Singularities and Noncommutative Geometry," 1997, Filozofia Nauki, 5, 5-14, in Polish

------. "Creation of the World in Contemporary Cosmology," 1998, in Pocz_tek Ñwiata - Biblia a nauka (Beginning of the World - Scripture and Science), ed. M. Heller and M. Droódó, (Tarnow: Biblos), 187-198

------. "Some Conceptual Problems of the Groupoid Approach to Noncommutative Quantization of Gravity," 1998, Acta Cosmologica, in press

------. "Time and Timelessness in Cosmology," in the Future of Science Has Begun (Milan: Erba Foundation), in press

HELLER, M., LUBANSKI, M., and SLAGA, Sz. 1997, Philosophical Problems of Contemporary Science: Introduction to Philosophy of Nature, 4th ed. (Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Akademii Teologii Katolickiej w Wraszawie), in Polish

------. 1998, Is Physics a Human Science? (Tarnow: Biblos), in press, in Polish

HELLER, M., MACZKA, J., and URBANIEC, J., ed. 1997, Limits of Science, (Krakow: OBI and Tarnow: Biblos)

HELLER, M., and DROZDZ, M., ed. 1998, Beginning of the World: Scripture and Science (Tarnow: Biblos)

KRING, D. A., HILL, D. H., GLEASON, J. D., BRITT, D. T., CONSOLMAGNO, G. J., FARMER, M., and HAAG, R. "The Portales Valley (New Mexico) Meteorite Fall of June 13, 1998," 1998, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, submitted

MOSS, C., WHITTLE, M., and PESCE, J. E. "Tidally-Induced Star Formation in Abell 1367," 1998, MNRAS, 300, 205

SIEROTOWICZ, T. "From Observations to the Model of the Universe," 1997, Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 21, 48-78, in Polish

------. "Some Considerations on the Conversation Between Gödel and Carnap," 1997, Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 21, 20-24, in Polish

------. "A Dialogue Between Gödel and Carnap," 1997, Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 21, 17-19, in Polish

------. "Da Archimede al Dialogo Sperimentale," 1998, Nuova Secondaria, 7, 97-98

------. "Sulle Tradizioni Cosmologiche di Ricerca," 1998, Epistemologia, 21, 87-118

SMRIGLIO, F., KAZLAUSKAS, A., DASGUPTA, A. K., STRAIZYS, V., and BOYLE, R. P. "CCD Photometry of the Globular Cluster M 92 in the Vilnius Photometric System. Eastern Area," 1998, Baltic Astron., 7, 393-405

STOEGER, W. R. Review of Is the Universe Open or Closed? The Density of Matter in the Universe, by Peter Coles and George F. R. Ellis, 1998, General Relativity and Gravitation 30, 989-993

------. "Report on the Theology and Natural Sciences Group Session, Eschatology: Scientific and Theological Perspectives in Dialogue," 1997, Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America, 52, 158-159

------. "God and Time: The Action and Life of the Triune God in the World," 1998, Theology Today, 55, 365-388

------. Review of Beyond Science: The Wider Human Context by John Polkinghorne, 1998, Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society, 25, 140-142

------. "My Scientific and Theological Autobiography," 1998, Dialogue, submitted

------. "Report on the Theology and Natural Science Group Session, The Johnson-Bracken Exchange--Searching for Metaphysics Adequate to Our Evolutionary Universe," 1998, Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America, ed. M. Downey, 53, 135-136

VEGA BELTRAN, J. C., ZEILINGER, W. W., AMICO, P., SCHULTHEIS, M., CORSINI, E. M., FUNES, J. G., BECKMAN, J., and BERTOLA, F. "Mixed Early and Late-Type Properties in the Bar of NGC 6221: Evidence for Evolution along the Hubble Sequence?," 1998, Astron. and Ap., 131, 105

 

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