Editing 9 Metis (section)

==Discovery and naming==
[[Image:Moon and Asteroids 1 to 10.svg|thumb|left|The first 10 asteroids profiled against Earth's [[Moon]]. 9 Metis is second from right.]]

Metis was discovered by [[Andrew Graham (astronomer)|Andrew Graham]] on 25 April 1848, at [[Markree Observatory]] in Ireland; it was his only asteroid discovery.<ref>Graham, A.; [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1848MNRAS...8..146G ''New Planet''], Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 8, No. 6 (dated 14 April 1848!), p. 146 (signed 29 April 1848; the discovery was first announced on 27 April)</ref> It also has been the only asteroid to have been discovered as a result of observations from Ireland until 7 October 2008, when, 160 years later, Dave McDonald from observatory J65 discovered (281507) 2008 TM<sub>9</sub>.<ref name="Ireland">{{cite web |date=10 October 2008 |title=Amateur Astronomer Becomes Second Ever to Discover Asteroid from Ireland, After 160 Years |publisher=International Year of Astronomy in Ireland |url=http://astronomy2009.ie/news/second_irish_amateur_astron.html |access-date=2 March 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721122044/http://astronomy2009.ie/news/second_irish_amateur_astron.html|archive-date=21 July 2011}}</ref> Its name comes from the mythological [[Metis (mythology)|Metis]], a [[Titan (mythology)|Titaness]] and [[Oceanid]], daughter of [[Tethys (mythology)|Tethys]] and [[Oceanus]].<ref>Graham, A.; [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1848MNRAS...8..148. ''Metis''], Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 8, No. 7 (dated 12 May 1848), pp. 147–150</ref> The name ''Thetis'' was also considered and rejected (it would later devolve to [[17 Thetis]]).

The historical symbol for Metis was an eye with a star above it. It is in the pipeline for [[Unicode]] 17.0 as U+1CEC3 𜻃 ([[File:Metis symbol (fixed width).svg|12px]]).<ref name=astunicode>{{cite web |url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2023/23207-historical-asteroids.pdf |title=Unicode request for historical asteroid symbols |last1=Bala |first1=Gavin Jared |last2=Miller |first2=Kirk |date=18 September 2023 |website=unicode.org |publisher=Unicode |access-date=26 September 2023 |quote=}}</ref><ref name=pipeline>{{cite web |url=https://unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html |title=Proposed New Characters: The Pipeline |author=Unicode |date= |website=unicode.org |publisher=The Unicode Consortium |access-date=6 November 2023 |quote=}}</ref>