Named in honor of Corrado Lamberti, an excellent writer and popularizer of astronomy and one of the founders and now director of the Italian popular astronomy review l´Astronomia. With his accurate work over the last 20 years, he has made a fundamental contribution to the dissemination of knowledge of astronomy in Italy. Name suggested and citation provided by M. di Martino.
Discovered on 15-10-1985 in Anderson Mesa by Bowell, E.