What numbered asteroid is named for Edwin Hubble?

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The asteroid named for Edwin Hubble is 2069 Hubble.

2069 Hubble is a carbonaceous asteroid in the outer region of the main asteroid belt. The Indiana Asteroid Program discovered it on March 29, 1955, at the Goethe Link Observatory in Indiana. Its original provisional designation was 1955 FT, before it received the permanent number and name associated with Hubble.

The asteroid honors Hubble’s role in establishing that the universe contains galaxies beyond the Milky Way and in developing a systematic classification of galaxy shapes. Its name is one of several commemorations of the astronomer, alongside the Hubble Space Telescope and the lunar crater Hubble.

A nearby fact often missed is that Hubble himself discovered an asteroid: 1373 Cincinnati. That object is separate from 2069 Hubble. The numbered asteroid in this question was discovered after Hubble’s major astronomical work and named in his honor; it was not one of his own discoveries.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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