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German astronomer
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Male
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Birth:
1 January 1889(Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Death:
1 January 1942(Münster, Münster Government Region, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
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Biography
Emil Ernst (6 June 1889– 26 June 1942) was a German astronomer and discoverer of a minor planet.
He did his Ph.D. dissertation in 1918 at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl (Heidelberg Observatory) at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg in southern Germany.
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.