Name Joel Metcalf | Role Astronomer | |
Died February 23, 1925, Portland, Maine, United States Discovered 747 Winchester, 653 Berenike, 611 Valeria Education Allegheny College, Harvard Divinity School Similar People Theodor Brorsen, Edward Charles Pickering, James Craig Watson, George Phillips Bond | ||
Joel Hastings Metcalf (January 4, 1866 – February 23, 1925) was an American astronomer, humanitarian and minister.
Reverend Metcalf graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1892. He served as a Unitarian minister in Burlington, Vermont and in Taunton, Massachusetts, Winchester, Massachusetts and Portland, Maine.
He discovered or co-discovered several comets, including 23P/Brorsen-Metcalf and 97P/Metcalf-Brewington, and also 41 asteroids during 1905–1914, as credited by the Minor Planet Center.
Two of his discoveries, the main-belt asteroids 726 Joëlla and 792 Metcalfia, were named in his honor.
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