(740) Cantabia

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( 740) Cantabia is an asteroid of the main belt, which was discovered on 10 February 1913 by U.S. astronomer Joel Hastings Metcalf in Winchester, Massachusetts.

The asteroid was named after a shortened form of Cantabridgia, the Latin name of Cambridge, home of Harvard University.

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