Asteroid 16089, Lamb, was discovered on October 7, 1999 by the Lincoln NEA Research Team at Socorro, New Mexico. Lamb has a period of 4 years, 134 days.
It was named for Portland, Oregon teacher William Lamb, who mentored a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors.
Astrologically, asteroid Lamb seems to indicate gentleness, peacefulness, meekness, pacifism, weakness (real or perceived), to sacrifice or to play the role of sacrifice.
Jimmy Carter, a Nobel laureate and a peacemaker whose perceived attitude toward the military as president and ineffectiveness at bringing a swift and satisfactory end to the Tehran hostage crisis of 1979-1981 cost him his presidency, has Lamb in the fourth house, sextile Varuna (inflated, grown big), square Chiron (self-wounding, a door-opener), quincunx Venus (getting along, values), and opposite Don Quixote (challenging the way things are).
Folk singer and veteran antiwar activist Joan Baez has Lamb in the seventh house, semisextile Mars, decile Ceres (to nurture), square Pluto (unforgettable, mass action), trine Heracles (to contend with), quincunx the Moon (the public, the role of wife) and opposite Jupiter (prosperity, philosophy, foreign countries).
Mohandas Gandhi, also known as Mahatma (Great Soul), had Lamb square the Sun (to shine, to lead), trine Hidalgo (to promote, to defend, to assert), quincunx Cruithne (in touch with one's roots, nicknamed) and Pholus (knowing respect, being strong before power, to permeate), opposite Varuna, and contraparallel Vesta (dedication, commitment).
Bill Clinton has Lamb in the fifth house of love affairs and self-expression, sextile Lilith (integration, the marginalized, to resign oneself to something) and sesquiquadrate Ixion (inventive, second chances, to generate karma). He worked to bring the marginalized into the mainstream, and was impeached for lying about an extramarital affair as part of an inquisition organized by his political enemies.
British prime minister Neville Chamberlain, whose unsuccessful attempts to placate Hitler in the 1930s made "appeasement" a dirty word, had Lamb in the fourth house of circumstances at the end of life, on the IC, semisextile Ceres, sextile Venus, square Chaos (groundbreaking), trine Cruithne (branded, stigmatized) as well as opposite the Midheaven (career, authority).
Kurt Cobain, a gentle, tormented individual (and of course, an eventual suicide) whose alternative-rock revolution of the early 1990s made rock music a bit more politically correct than it had been, had Lamb in the second house of moneymaking, decile Neptune (music, idealism) and Vesta, trine Cruithne, Damocles (drastic change) and the Midheaven, quincunx Mercury, and opposite Heracles.
Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American boy from Chicago whose brutal 1955 murder at the hands of two Mississippi bigots was one of the civil-rights revolution's most influential events, had Lamb quincunx Jupiter (travel, faraway places, philosophy, publishing) and contraparallel Venus (values, outrage, adolescence). His mother, Mamie Till Mobley, insisted on an open-casket funeral and allowed Jet magazine to take a photo of Emmett's battered face, which it put on the front cover, sparking widespread outrage.
Rodney King, whose 1991 beating at the hands of out-of-control Los Angeles police officers sparked race riots, has Lamb in the twelfth house of self-undoing, on the Ascendant, sextile Ceres (nurture), square Uranus (riots) and parallel Venus.
German astrologer Karl Ernest Krafft, who was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp and killed for not giving Hitler the kind of predictions that he wanted to hear, had Lamb in the tenth house of career, semisquare Mercury, sextile Asbolus (giving advice, divination, terrible experiences), square Nessus (predatory), trine Ceres, sesquiquadrate the Vertex (significant relationships), quincunx Ixion and opposite Uranus (astrology).
Jim Jones had Lamb in the seventh house, on the Descendant, semisquare the Sun, trine Heracles (to contend with, to commit suicide as a means of escape), quindecile Vesta (dedication, commitment) and parallel Jupiter (religion, the law). He and his cult, the People's Temple, killed themselves with cyanide-laced Kool-Aid and injections of cyanide in their isolated compound near Port Kaituma, Guyana after a visit by a suspicious US representative representing the family of one of his followers and an American TV crew (who were followed to the Port Kaituma airstrip and murdered by People's Temple members).
Marshall Applewhite had Lamb in the fourth house, semisquare the Moon (the public), quintile Venus (love, values, harmony), square Heracles (to commit suicide as a means of escape), trine Chaos and quindecile Saturn (discipline, order, work). Applewhite and his cult, Heaven's Gate, killed themselves in with poison in their Rancho Santa Fe, California mansion in order to join the UFO Applewhite said would be coming to pick them up, and they did it in a very methodical, very orderly way with practically no dissent or resistance.
The glyph for Lamb is mine.