1923 Y.O. 13. Discovered 1923 Dec. 2 by G. Van Biesbroeck at Williams Bay. (*AN 223, 207)
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 the Astrophysical Journal, and he invented the spectroheliograph. (H 98)
Hale is also honored by craters on Mars and the Moon.
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(2006). (1024) Hale [2.87, 0.22, 16.1]. In: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-34361-5_17
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