AT least four newly-discovered asteroids have been named after Jesuit priests, according to the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP).

Quoting the Vatican Observatory, the CBCP identified them as: "560974 Ugoboncompagni," after Ugo Boncompagni (1502–1585) and Pope Gregory 13th; "562971 Johannhagen" after Jesuit Father Johann Hagen (1847–1930), director of the Vatican Observatory from 1906 to 1930; "551878 Stoeger" for Father Bill Stoeger, also a Jesuit (1943–2014), a cosmologist and theologian at the Vatican Observatory; and "565184 Janusz" for Jesuit Father Robert Janusz (b. 1964), currently on the staff of the observatory.

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