Lalande was honored by naming a Moon crater after him (4.4S, 8.6W, 24.0 km diameter, in 1935). Asteroid (9136) Lalande was discovered on May 13, 1971 by C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld and T. Gehrels of Palomar Observatory, provisionally designated 4886 T-1, and 1976 UW1 and 1991 RG21 on later independent findings.

Links

• Joseph-Jerome le Francois de Lalande images, NGC/IC observers' page

• Kenneth Glyn Jones, 1991. Messier's Nebulae and Star Clusters. 2nd ed, Cambridge University Press, pp. 329-30. [ADS: 1991mnsc.book.....J].
• Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, 1827. Histoire de l'Astronomie au dix-huitièmme siècle [History of Astronomy in the Eighteenth Century]. Bachelier (Successor of Mme. Ve. Courcier), Paris. P. xxxij, 547-621.