Joel Hastings Metcalf

+ Asteroids discovered: 41 525 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
 Joel H. Metcalf "home page" 

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