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Leonard L. Amburgey is an American amateur astronomer and public schoolteacher. On July 2, 2000, he stumbled upon the near-Earth asteroid 2000 NM using a modest telescope in his backyard (called Scott Observatory, IAU number 823 [1]) in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. As a result, he became the fourth winner of the James Benson Prize for Discovery Methods of Near-Earth Objects by Amateurs.
In 2005, he received the Fitchburg State College (whence he graduated in 1968 and 1973) Alumni Achievement Award [2].
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