8347 Lallaward (1987 HK) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 21 1987 by C. S. Shoemaker and E. M. Shoemaker at Palomar. It was named in honour of Lalla Ward an actress best known for her role as Romana in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. She is also the wife of evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins.
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