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Discovered 1923 Dec. 12 by G. Van Biesbroeck at Williams Bay.
Named in honor of George Ellery Hale (1868–1938), founder and first director of Yerkes and Mt. Wilson Observatories and inspirer of the observatory at Mt. Palomar. With J. E. Keeler {see planet(2261)} he founded theAstrophysical Journal, and he invented the spectroheliograph. (H 98)
Hale is also honored by craters on Mars and the Moon.
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(2003). (1024) Hale. In: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_1025
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