Lamont
Asteroid Number 8368
Discovered February 20, 1991 by R. H. McNaught at Siding Spring.
>>Lamb asteroid<<
Johann von Lamont (1805-1879) was born in Scotland but moved to Bavaria to be educated. He became director of the Bogenhausen Observatory and Astronomer Royal of Bavaria. Initially studying positional astronomy, he later developed a network of meteorological and magnetic stations throughout Europe.