14967 Madrid
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14967 Madrid is a main-belt
Asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...

 asteroid
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 August 6, 1997 by Ángel López and Rafael Pacheco
Rafael Pacheco
Rafael Pacheco is a Spanish astronomer.He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids.-References:*...

 at Majorca. It is named after Spain's capital city
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...


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