Discovery date 7 September 1962 Minor planet category main-belt Discovered 7 September 1962 Orbits Sun Discovery site Goethe Link Observatory Discoverer Indiana Asteroid Program | MPC designation 2751 Campbell Observation arc 53.52 yr (19548 days) Absolute magnitude 13 Named after William Wallace Campbell Asteroid group Asteroid belt | |
Discovered by Indiana University
(Indiana Asteroid Program) Alternative names 1962 RP · 1973 RD
1975 EO2 · 1977 RN6
1981 WF4 | ||
2751 Campbell, provisionally designated 1962 RP, is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 7, 1962 by the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Observatory in Indiana, United States.
It is named after American astronomer William Wallace Campbell (1862–1938), observational spectroscopist, director of the Lick Observatory, president of the University of California, president of the International Astronomical Union, and president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He pioneered in the first large-scale systematic program for the accurate measurement of stellar radial velocities.
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