(8291) Bingham

1992 RV₁. Discovered 1992 Sept. 2 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.

Hiram Bingham (1885–1956), a member of the history faculty at Yale University, went searching for the lost city of the Incas. After tremendous effort he found it — Machu Picchu — high in the Andes, not far from Cuzco {see planet  (8279)}, on 1911 July 24. (M 47163; M 47243)