IAU Citation
(722063) Andrasz = 2005 CO83
Discovery: 2013-05-03 / K. Černis, R. P. Boyle * / Mount Graham / 290
Józef Andrasz (1891–1963) was a Polish Jesuit priest. He studied philosophy and theology in Poland and Grafenberg (Moravia). He was a writer, retreat leader, and spiritual director, and he worked at the Jesuit Publishing House in Krakow.
Source: https://www.wgsbn-iau.org/files/Bulletins/V005/WGSBNBull_V005_002.pdf
Asteroid Orbit
Asteroid (722063) Andrasz is a main-belt asteroid with an orbital period of 3.61 years, and an inclination of 5.02 degrees.
JPL Small Body Database: https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=Andrasz
Related Information
Józef Andrasz was a confessor for St. Faustina – Rev. Robert Janusz, S.J.
Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, OLM (born Helena Kowalska; 25 August 1905 – 5 October 1938) was a Polish Catholic religious sister and mystic. Faustyna, popularly spelled “Faustina”, had apparitions of Jesus Christ which inspired the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy, therefore she is sometimes called the “secretary” of Divine Mercy. – Wikipedia
Józef Andrasz on Saint-Faustina.org
Józef Andrasz on Jesuits.eu
Józef Andrasz on NewDailyCompass.com “Father Andrasz: another confessor of St. Faustina Kowalska destined for sainthood”
Józef Andrasz on Wikipedia
Andrasz.jezuici.pl
Asteroids Named for Jesuits
Br. Bob Macke, S.J., Curator of Meteorites at the Vatican Observatory in Rome, maintains a graphic showing an ever-growing list of Jesuits who have asteroids named after them – he’s quickly running run out of room!
About the Asteroid Discoverers
Dr. Kazimieras Černis
(born November 11, 1958, Vilnius) is a Lithuanian astronomer and astrophysicist, active member of the IAU, and a prolific discoverer of minor planets and comets. He is a chief researcher at the Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy (ITPA).
In 2012, he discovered 420356 Praamzius, a trans-Neptunian object and dwarf planet candidate. – Wikipedia
In IAU WGSBN Bulletin V004_006, there were six named asteroids with Černis listed as the discoverer, including (191775) Poczobut.
Rev. Richard P. Boyle, S.J.
Rev. Boyle specializes in observational astronomy, in studies of stellar populations in Milky Way Galaxy star clusters and in research of the atmospheres of giant red stars. By making observations at VATT he collaborates with astronomers pursuing research on various objects like brown dwarfs, sdB stars for astroseismology, and discovery of solar system asteroids.
