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187 Lamberta is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered by French (Corsican) astronomer Jérôme Eugène Coggia on April 11 1878 and named after the astronomer Johann Heinrich Lambert. It was the second of Coggia’s five asteroid discoveries.The spectrum matches a classification of a C-type asteroid which may mean it has a composition of primitive carbonaceous materials. It is a dark object as indicated by the low albedo and has an estimated size of about 131 km.