TMT - Contested Case Hearing Status - Hilo

[Obie]

"The Vatican Observatory is a scientific research institute of the Holy See subject to the Governorate of Vatican City State.

The Observatory is one of the oldest astronomical institutes in the world. Papal interest in astronomy can be traced to Pope Gregory XIII who had the Tower of the Winds built in the Vatican in 1578 and later called on Jesuit astronomers and mathematicians to study the scientific data and implications involved in the reform of the calendar which occurred in 1582."

http://www.vaticanstate.va/content/vatic...icana.html