Emil Ernst

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Discovered asteroids : 1
(705) Erminia October 6, 1910

Emil Hermann Ernst (born June 6, 1889 in Newark (New Jersey) , † May 26, 1942 in Münster ) was a German astronomer . He discovered the asteroid (705) Erminia .

It was in 1918 at the State Observatory Heidelberg-Königstuhl Heidelberg University with the paper "On the fitness of the Wellmann's double image micrometer to micrometric measurements" doctorate . At that time, the observatory in Heidelberg was a center for the discovery of asteroids under its director Max Wolf . During his time there, Ernst discovered an asteroid.

In 1929 he accepted a position at the University of Münster .

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  1. ^ List of doctoral theses at the State Observatory in Heidelberg-Königstuhl
  2. ^ Notes and News. In: The American Mineralogist. Volume 14, 5, May 1929, p. 203 ( online (PDF; 71 kB) )