Observatory Visitors

The Observatory at Castel Gandolfo was happy to receive the visit on 3 October of His Eminence Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger and the members of the International Theological Commission.

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, assisted by KOCH and BUONVINO, at Castel Gandolfo.

The following individuals paid working visits to the Observatory:

JEAN-EUDES ARLOT, Institute for Celestial Mechanics, Paris, France

MIGUEL CHAVEZ, Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica, Puebla, Mexico

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

ELIZABETH GRIFFIN, Oxford University, England

ROBERT GARRISON, University of Toronto, Canada

RICHARD GRAY, Appalachian State University, USA

ROBERT JANUSZ, S.J., Krakow, 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, NY, USA

WILIAM THUILLOT, Institute for Celestial Mechanics, Paris, France

FRANK YOUNGER, Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, Canada

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

CRISTIANO BATALLI-COSMOVICI, Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario, CNR, Rome; FRANCESCO BERTOLA, Department of Astronomy, University of Padua; FRED CHAFEE, W. M. Keck Observatories, Kamuela, Hawaii; ENRICO CORSINI, Department of Astronomy, University of Padua; DALE CRUIKSHANK, NASA Ames Research Center, California; SIMON MITTON, Cambridge University, UK; PIERRE ROCHETTE, European Center for Research and Teaching in Geoscience and the Environment, Aix en Provence, France; FILIPPO SMRIGLIO, Department of Physics, University of Rome; MELISSA STRAIT, Alma College, Michigan; FRED VRBA, U.S. Naval Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona.