Observatory Visitors

The Vatican Observatory at Castel Gandolfo and the Vatican Observatory Research Group in Tucson, Arizona, hosted a number of visitors during the year. Noteworthy were the number of school groups and cultural groups received by MAFFEO at Castel Gandolfo.

Among the groups who visited the Observatory at Castel Gandolfo were: friends of Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J., who visited with the Cardinal on the occasion of his becoming a Prince of the Church; a pilgrimage group from the Diocese of Down and Connor, Ireland, led by Bishop Patrick Walsh, an alumnus of the 1991 Summer School in Astrophysics for Bishops; and the alumni group of the University of Dallas, led by Richard Olenick, professor of physics.

We were privileged to have a visit from the newly appointed Ambassador to the Holy See from the United States, R. James Nicholson.

In connection with the annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society held in Rome 10-14 September, 65 members of the Meteoritical Society visited the Observatory in Castel Gandolfo.

The following individuals paid extended working visits to the Observatory:

AJOY K. DASGUPTA, South Glamorgan Education Department, Cardiff, UK

ROBERT JANUSZ, S.J., Cracow, Poland

ALGIS KAZLAUSKAS, Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy, Vilnius, Lithuania

VYGANDAS LAUGALYS, Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy, Vilnius, Lithuania

A. G. DAVIS PHILIP, Union College and Institute for Space Observations, Schenectady, New York, USA

STEPHEN J. SHAWL, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA

Among other professional guests at either Castel Gandolfo or Tucson during the year were:

DAN BRITT, University of Tennessee; GIOVANNI DEMARIA, University of Rome; DANIEL HEYNDERICKX, Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium; C. RENEE JAMES, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas; OMAR KURTANIDZE, Republic of Georgia; JONATHAN LUNINE, University of Arizona; G. MACPHERSON, Smithsonian Institution, Natural History Museum; ADRIANA MARAS, University of Rome; DMITRI PAPANASTASSIOU, California Institute of Technology; ANNA GANNON RECCA, Manhasset, New York; PIERRE ROCHETTE. University of Aix-Marseille; WILLIAM RUEGER, Diocese of Brooklyn; FILIPPO SMRIGLIO, Department of Physics, University of Rome; RAMON D. WOLSTENCROFT, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, UK; FRANK YOUNGER, Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, Canada.