Name Pamela Kilmartin | Role Astronomer | |
Discovered 4409 Kissling, (21130) 1993 FN, (11080) 1993 FO People also search for Alan C. Gil, Max Wolf, Beatrice Tinsley |
Pamela M. Kilmartin is a New Zealand astronomer and a co-discoverer of minor planets and comets.
She is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 41 asteroids, all in collaboration with her husband, the astronomer Alan C. Gilmore. Both astronomers are also active comet-hunters. She is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand (RASNZ) and co-director of its "Comets and Minor Planets" section.
The minor planet 3907 Kilmartin, discovered by Max Wolf in 1904, was named in her honour. Naming citation was published on 21 April 1989 (M.P.C. 14482). In 1983, the Eunomia asteroid 2537 Gilmore was already named after both, Alan and Pamela Gilmore.
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