1024 Hale
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1024 Hale is an asteroid
. It was discovered by George Van Biesbroeck
on December 2, 1923. Its provisional designation was 1923 YO13. It was named after George Ellery Hale
.
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
. It was discovered by George Van Biesbroeck
George Van Biesbroeck
George A. Van Biesbroeck was a Belgian-American astronomer. He worked at observatories in Belgium, Germany and the United States. He specialized in the observation of double stars, asteroids and comets...
on December 2, 1923. Its provisional designation was 1923 YO13. It was named after George Ellery Hale
George Ellery Hale
George Ellery Hale was an American solar astronomer.-Biography:Hale was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was educated at MIT, at the Observatory of Harvard College, , and at Berlin . As an undergraduate at MIT, he is known for inventing the spectroheliograph, with which he made his discovery of...
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