Joel Hastings Metcalf
Astronomer
1866 – 1925
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Who was Joel Hastings Metcalf?
Joel Hastings Metcalf was an American astronomer.
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 a number of asteroids. Asteroid 792 Metcalfia is named in his honour.
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- Born
- Jan 4, 1866
Meadville - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard Divinity School
- Allegheny College
- Lived in
- Burlington
- Taunton
- Died
- Feb 23, 1925
Portland
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on July 23, 2013
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