(18872) Tammann

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( 18872 ) Tammann is an asteroid of the main belt, which by the Swiss astronomer Stefano Sposetti Osservatorio Astronomico di on Gnosca (IAU code 143) was discovered in Gnosca in Ticino on 8 November 1999.

The asteroid was after Gustav Andreas Tammann, one born in Göttingen cosmologist and professor of astronomy at the University of Basel, named. Tammann has a worldwide reputation as an expert for the determination of the Hubble constant.