2634 James Bradley
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2634 James Bradley is an outer main-belt asteroid
discovered on February 21, 1982 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff (AM).
It is named in honor of James Bradley
, British Astronomer Royal from 1742, best known for discovering the aberration of light while attempting to detect stellar parallax.
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...
discovered on February 21, 1982 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff (AM).
It is named in honor of James Bradley
James Bradley
James Bradley FRS was an English astronomer and served as Astronomer Royal from 1742, succeeding Edmund Halley. He is best known for two fundamental discoveries in astronomy, the aberration of light , and the nutation of the Earth's axis...
, British Astronomer Royal from 1742, best known for discovering the aberration of light while attempting to detect stellar parallax.