Emil Ernst
705 Erminia | October 6, 1910 | MPC |
Emil Ernst (6 June 1889– 26 June 1942) was a German astronomer and discoverer of a minor planet.
He did his PhD dissertation in 1918 at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl (Heidelberg Observatory) at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg in southern Germany.[2]
At the time, the observatory at Heidelberg was a center for asteroid discovery under the direction of Max Wolf. During his time there, Ernst discovered the main-belt asteroid 705 Erminia.
References
[edit]- ^ "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 20 June 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
- ^ List of Dissertations at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl Archived 2004-06-23 at the Wayback Machine
External links
[edit]- Emil Ernst, publications at Astrophysics Data System