Asteroid 26973, Lala, was discovered on September 29, 1997, by Petr Pravec and Marek Wolf at Ondrejov Observatory in Ondrejov, Czech Republic. Lala has a period of 4 years, 157 days.
It was named after Czech astronomer Petr Lála (born 1942), a member of the World Space Congress and deputy director and research chief at the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs who once worked at Ondrejov Observatory (from 1964 to 1988). Dr. Lala's main field of interest is astrodynamics, particularly the orbital dynamics of space probes and satellites, and is also involved in international decision-making concerning space junk, registration of space objects, geostationary orbit and safety of nuclear power sources in space.
Petr Lala
Astrologically, though, asteroid Lala seems to indicate what its name might suggest: "out in la-la land", i.e. eccentric, cracked, "out there"; or seen as such..
Los Angeles, the original "La-La Land"
Fringe politician Lyndon LaRouche, an eccentric, braggart and alleged bigot who once did prison time for conspiracy, mail fraud and tax evasion, has Lala square Quaoar (under scrutiny) and Don Quixote (taking on the system) and sesquiquadrate Jupiter (exaggeration, philosophy, support from others).
Excessive, eccentric (some would say psychotic) Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu (born January 26, 1918 in Scornicesti, Romania) had Lala conjunct Nessus (predatory), semisextile Hylonome (the cry of the people), sextile the Sun (to shine, to rule), square Pluto (dictatorship, madness, self-destruction), and trine Neptune and Pallas.
Belgian cult leader Luc Jouret, founder of the Order of the Solar Temple, a cult whose members eventually committed mass suicide amid house fires on two continents, had Lala in the twelfth house of secrecy, institutions and self-undoing, undecimal Venus (values) and trine Mars (violence, fires) and Damocles (crisis, transgressive, experience of groupthink, the axe falling).
David Koresh, a crazed, murderous cult leader who has received much more support than he deserves, had Lala in the eleventh house of love received and politics, on the twelfth cusp, conjunct Okyrhoe (listening to one's own voice), semisextile the Ascendant, undecimal the North Node, sextile the Midheaven (authority, the government), trine Saturn (work, rewards and consequences) and Pandora (making a splash, having an impact, stirring things up, unintended consequences), and quincunx Chariklo (glamorization, need to keep perspective).
Infamous homophobe Fred Phelps, who has spent his entire life raving to the choir and whose Topeka church is composed entirely of those members of his extended family who he has not driven away, has Lala sextile Cyllarus (because one can), square Neptune (hysteria, delusions), trine Varuna (fundamentalism, judgment), sesquiquadrate Dioretsa (foolishness, wildness, something that sticks) and quincunx Huya (something missing).
Michael Jackson has Lala semisextile Uranus (excitement, radio, homosexuality) and sextile Varuna (grown huge, judgment).
Howard Hughes, whose wealth let him indulge his obsessive-compulsive disorder instead of getting it treated and who became synonymous with seclusion, paranoia and weirdness, had Lala in the second house, sextile Mercury (ideas, thought, writing, speaking, the media) and Quaoar (under scrutiny, acting according to urges) and quincunx Ceres (nurturance).
The glyph for Lala is mine.