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562971 Johannhagen, 551878 Stoeger, 565184 Janusz and 560974 Ugoboncompagni.
Pope Gregory, who was born Ugo Boncompagni, is the Pope to whom we owe the reform of the calendar and the beginning of the tradition of papal astronomers and observatories. The astronomers after whom three celestial bodies have been named are the Jesuits Johann Hagen, who was director of the Vatican Observatory from 1906 to 1930, Bill Stoeger, cosmologist and theologian, and Robert Janusz, currently on the staff of the Vatican Observatory.
Among them is Fr. Christopher Clavius, who was commissioned by Gregory XIII to work on the calendar project - 'his' asteroid is called 20237 Clavius - and Fr. Giovanni Battista Riccioli who developed the lunar nomenclature system still used today; the now famous 'Sea of Tranquility' where Apollo 11 landed, for example, owes its name to him.
Several other asteroids were named by astronomers of the Specola Vaticana, among them 302849 Richardboyle, 119248 Corbally, 14429 Coyne, 4597 Consolmagno, 23443 Kikwaya and 11266 Macke.According to the International Astronomical Union, the naming of a particular asteroid can take, in some cases, decades.
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