Emil Ernst


705 ErminiaOctober 6, 1910

Emil Ernst was a German astronomer and discoverer of a minor planet.
He did his Ph.D. dissertation in 1918 at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl 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.