Discovered by E. Bowell (LONEOS) MPC designation 2531 Cambridge Discovered 11 June 1980 Orbits Sun Discovery site Anderson Mesa Station | Discovery date 11 June 1980 Minor planet category main-belt Absolute magnitude 10.9 Discoverer Edward L. G. Bowell Asteroid group Asteroid belt | |
Named after Cambridge (UK) and Cambridge, MA USA Alternative names 1980 LD · 1931 AP
1942 EQ · 1952 BG
1963 FK · 1963 HD
1971 VY · 1974 KH
A916 FE | ||
2531 Cambridge, provisional designation 1980 LD, is a main-belt asteroid discovered by American astronomer Edward Bowell at Lowell's Anderson Mesa Station in Flagstaff, Arizona. The asteroid measures about 19 kilometer in diameter and has a high albedo of 0.21. It has its perihelion at 2.84 AU, an eccentricity of 0.06 and an orbital period of 1,906 days (5.22 years).
It is named after the University of Cambridge in England and the universities in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States), where the Minor Planet Center is located at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
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