1178 Irmela
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1178 Irmela is an asteroid
. It was discovered by Max Wolf
on March 13, 1931. Its provisional designation was 1931 EC. It was named after Irmela Ruska, wife of Ernst Ruska
.
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 Max Wolf
Max Wolf
Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf was a German astronomer and a pioneer in the field of astrophotography...
on March 13, 1931. Its provisional designation was 1931 EC. It was named after Irmela Ruska, wife of Ernst Ruska
Ernst Ruska
Ernst August Friedrich Ruska was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope.Ruska was born in Heidelberg...
.