21509 Lucascavin 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

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 discovered on May 22, 1998 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research

Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research

The Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project is a cooperative project between the United States Air Force, NASA, and MIT's Lincoln Laboratory for the systematic discovery and tracking of near-Earth asteroids. LINEAR was responsible for the majority of asteroid detections since 1998 until...

 team at Socorro, New Mexico

Socorro, New Mexico

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. This asteroid is believed to result from the collisional destruction of a larger parent body approximately 300,000 to 800,000 years ago. The asteroid was named for Lucas James Cavin who won second place in the 2005 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair

Intel International Science and Engineering Fair

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for his engineering project.