726 Joëlla
Encyclopedia
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
.
Minor planet
An asteroid group or minor-planet group is a population of minor planets that have a share broadly similar orbits. Members are generally unrelated to each other, unlike in an asteroid family, which often results from the break-up of a single asteroid...
orbiting the Sun
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields...
. It was discovered on November 22, 1911, by Joel Hastings Metcalf
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 then later in Taunton, Massachusetts, Winchester, Massachusetts and Portland, Maine.He discovered or co-discovered several comets,...
, in 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...
, in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.