2634 James Bradley (1982 DL) 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.
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