Joel Hastings Metcalf
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| 525 Adelaide | October 21, 1908 |
| 581 Tauntonia 581 Tauntonia -External links:*... |
December 24, 1905 |
| 599 Luisa 599 Luisa -External links:*... |
April 25, 1906 |
| 600 Musa 600 Musa -External links:*... |
June 14, 1906 |
| 602 Marianna 602 Marianna -External links:*... |
February 16, 1906 |
| 603 Timandra 603 Timandra -External links:*... |
February 16, 1906 |
| 604 Tekmessa 604 Tekmessa -External links:*... |
February 16, 1906 |
| 611 Valeria 611 Valeria -External links:*... |
September 24, 1906 |
| 620 Drakonia 620 Drakonia -External links:*... |
October 26, 1906 |
| 622 Esther 622 Esther -External links:*... |
November 13, 1906 |
| 636 Erika 636 Erika -External links:*... |
February 8, 1907 |
| 637 Chrysothemis 637 Chrysothemis - External links :*... |
March 11, 1907 |
| 638 Moira 638 Moira -External links:*... |
May 5, 1907 |
| 645 Agrippina 645 Agrippina -External links:*... |
September 13, 1907 |
| 653 Berenike 653 Berenike 653 Berenike is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 27, 1907 by Joel Hastings Metcalf at Taunton, Massachusetts. It is named after Berenice II of Egypt, after whom the constellation Coma Berenices is also named.- References :... |
November 27, 1907 |
| 655 Briseïs 655 Briseïs -External links:*... |
November 4, 1907 |
| 660 Crescentia 660 Crescentia - External links :*... |
January 8, 1908 |
| 661 Cloelia 661 Cloelia -External links:*... |
February 22, 1908 |
| 662 Newtonia 662 Newtonia -External links:*... |
March 30, 1908 |
| 673 Edda 673 Edda -External links:*... |
September 20, 1908 |
| 675 Ludmilla 675 Ludmilla -External links:*... |
August 30, 1908 |
| 690 Wratislavia 690 Wratislavia 690 Wratislavia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Wratislavia was discovered on October 16, 1909. IRAS data shows it is about 135 km in diameter.-External links:* * from JPL / *... |
October 16, 1909 |
| 691 Lehigh 691 Lehigh 691 Lehigh is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is named "Lehigh" after Lehigh University, where its orbit was calculated in the Masters Thesis of Joseph B. Reynolds, following Metcalf's observations.-External links:*... |
December 11, 1909 |
| 694 Ekard 694 Ekard -External links:*... |
November 7, 1909 |
| 695 Bella 695 Bella - External links :*... |
November 7, 1909 |
| 696 Leonora 696 Leonora -External links:*... |
January 10, 1910 |
| 726 Joëlla 726 Joëlla 726 Joëlla is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered on November 22, 1911, by Joel Hastings Metcalf, in Winchester, Massachusetts, in the United States.-External links:*... |
November 22, 1911 |
| 729 Watsonia 729 Watsonia 729 Watsonia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was named after the Canadian-American astronomer James C. Watson.-External links:*... |
February 9, 1912 |
| 736 Harvard 736 Harvard 736 Harvard is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is named after Harvard University.-External links:*... |
November 16, 1912 |
| 737 Arequipa 737 Arequipa -External links:*... |
December 7, 1912 |
| 739 Mandeville 739 Mandeville -External links:*... |
February 7, 1913 |
| 740 Cantabia 740 Cantabia -External links:*... |
February 10, 1913 |
| 741 Botolphia 741 Botolphia 741 Botolphia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun, discovered by Joel Hastings Metcalf on February 10, 1913 from Winchester. It is named after Saint Botolph, the semi-legendary founder of a 7th century monastery that would become the town of Boston, Lincolnshire, England.-External links:*... |
February 10, 1913 |
| 747 Winchester 747 Winchester 747 Winchester is an asteroid, a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered in 1913, and is named after the town in which it was discovered, Winchester, Massachusetts, in the USA.-External links:*... |
March 7, 1913 |
| 755 Quintilla 755 Quintilla -External links:*... |
April 6, 1908 |
| 756 Lilliana 756 Lilliana 756 Lilliana is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It rotates around its axis of rotation every 9.3 hours.- References :... |
April 26, 1908 |
| 757 Portlandia 757 Portlandia -External links:*... |
September 30, 1908 |
| 767 Bondia 767 Bondia - External links :*... |
September 23, 1913 |
| 784 Pickeringia 784 Pickeringia -External links:*... |
March 20, 1914 |
| 792 Metcalfia 792 Metcalfia -External links:*... |
March 20, 1907 |
| 1345 Potomac 1345 Potomac 1345 Potomac is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on February 4, 1908 by J. H. Metcalf at Taunton.- External links :*... |
February 4, 1908 |
Joel Hastings Metcalf (January 4, 1866–February 23, 1925) was an American astronomer
Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...
.
Metcalf graduated from Harvard Divinity School
Harvard Divinity School
Harvard Divinity School is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. The School's mission is to train and educate its students either in the academic study of religion, or for the practice of a religious ministry or other public...
in 1892. He served as a Unitarian
Unitarianism
Unitarianism is a Christian theological movement, named for its understanding of God as one person, in direct contrast to Trinitarianism which defines God as three persons coexisting consubstantially as one in being....
minister in Burlington, Vermont
Burlington, Vermont
Burlington is the largest city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the shire town of Chittenden County. Burlington lies south of the U.S.-Canadian border and some south of Montreal....
and then later in Taunton, Massachusetts
Taunton, Massachusetts
Taunton is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the seat of Bristol County and the hub of the Greater Taunton Area. The city is located south of Boston, east of Providence, north of Fall River and west of Plymouth. The City of Taunton is situated on the Taunton River...
, Winchester, Massachusetts
Winchester, Massachusetts
Winchester is a town located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, eight miles north of Boston. With its agricultural roots having mostly disappeared, it is now an affluent suburb...
and Portland, Maine
Portland, Maine
Portland is the largest city in Maine and is the county seat of Cumberland County. The 2010 city population was 66,194, growing 3 percent since the census of 2000...
.
He discovered or co-discovered several comet
Comet
A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when close enough to the Sun, displays a visible coma and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena are both due to the effects of solar radiation and the solar wind upon the nucleus of the comet...
s, including 23P/Brorsen-Metcalf
23P/Brorsen-Metcalf
Comet Brorsen–Metcalf is a periodic comet in our solar system that was first discovered by Theodor Brorsen on July 20, 1847, and again by Kaspar Schweizer on August 11, 1847, the prediction was made it would return between 1919 and 1922.On August 21, 1919, the comet was recovered by Reverend Joel...
and 97P/Metcalf-Brewington, and also a number of asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
s. Asteroid 792 Metcalfia
792 Metcalfia
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is named in his honour.