696 Leonora is a
Meliboean asteroid orbiting the
Sun
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in the
asteroid belt
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. It was discovered 10 January 1910 by American astronomer
Joel Hastings Metcalf
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 i ...
, at
Taunton, Massachusetts
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. It was named by Arthur Snow of the
United States Naval Observatory
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, who computed the orbit for the planet, after his wife, Mary Leonora Snow.
References
External links
Lightcurve plot of 696 Leonora Palmer Divide Observatory,
B. D. Warner (2005)
Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB) query form
)
Dictionary of Minor Planet Names Google books
– Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
– Minor Planet Center
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Meliboea asteroids
Leonora
Leonora
XC-type asteroids (Tholen)
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