Joel Hastings Metcalf
American astronomer (1866-1925)
525 Adelaide | October 21, 1908 |
581 Tauntonia | December 24, 1905 |
599 Luisa | April 25, 1906 |
600 Musa | June 14, 1906 |
602 Marianna | February 16, 1906 |
603 Timandra | February 16, 1906 |
604 Tekmessa | February 16, 1906 |
611 Valeria | September 24, 1906 |
620 Drakonia | October 26, 1906 |
622 Esther | November 13, 1906 |
636 Erika | February 8, 1907 |
637 Chrysothemis | March 11, 1907 |
638 Moira | May 5, 1907 |
645 Agrippina | September 13, 1907 |
653 Berenike | November 27, 1907 |
655 Briseïs | November 4, 1907 |
660 Crescentia | January 8, 1908 |
661 Cloelia | February 22, 1908 |
662 Newtonia | March 30, 1908 |
673 Edda | September 20, 1908 |
675 Ludmilla | August 30, 1908 |
690 Wratislavia | October 16, 1909 |
691 Lehigh | December 11, 1909 |
694 Ekard | November 7, 1909 |
695 Bella | November 7, 1909 |
696 Leonora | January 10, 1910 |
726 Joëlla | November 22, 1911 |
729 Watsonia | February 9, 1912 |
736 Harvard | November 16, 1912 |
737 Arequipa | December 7, 1912 |
739 Mandeville | February 7, 1913 |
740 Cantabia | February 10, 1913 |
741 Botolphia | February 10, 1913 |
747 Winchester | March 7, 1913 |
755 Quintilla | April 6, 1908 |
756 Lilliana | April 26, 1908 |
757 Portlandia | September 30, 1908 |
767 Bondia | September 23, 1913 |
784 Pickeringia | March 20, 1914 |
792 Metcalfia | March 20, 1907 |
1345 Potomac | February 4, 1908 |
Joel Hastings Metcalf (January 4, 1866–February 23, 1925) was an American astronomer.
Metcalf graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1892. He served as a Unitarian minister in Burlington, Vermont and then later in Taunton, Massachusetts, Winchester, Massachusetts and Portland, Maine.
He found or co-found many comets, such as 23P/Brorsen-Metcalf and 97P/Metcalf-Brewington; he also found many asteroids.
Other websites
change- Joel H. Metcalf "home page" Archived 2004-04-09 at the Wayback Machine