603 Timandra [SEP] discoverer or inventor
603 Timandra
Timandra (minor planet designation: 603 Timandra) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by American astronomer Joel Hastings Metcalf on February 16, 1906, in Taunton, Massachusetts.
Photometric observations of this asteroid at the Organ Mesa Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico, during 2010 gave a light curve with a long rotation period of 41.79 ± 0.02 hours and a brightness variation of 0.10 ± 0.02 in magnitude.
External links.
- Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets
603 (disambiguation)
603 may refer to:
- 603 (number), the natural number following 602 and preceding 604
- A year: 603 CE or 603 BCE
- The North American telephone area code 603
- The US state of New Hampshire, which solely uses the 603 area code.
- The IBM 603 Electronic Multiplier
- The PowerPC 603 microprocessor
- The socket 603 motherboard socket for the Intel Xeon microprocessor
- Minor planet 603, named Timandra
- The Tatra 603 automobile