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Pamela Margaret KilmartinMNZM is a New Zealandastronomer and a co-discoverer of minor planets andcomets.[2]
Kilmartin is credited by theMinor Planet Center with the discovery of 41asteroids, all in collaboration with her husband, the astronomerAlan C. Gilmore.[1] Both astronomers are also activecomet-hunters. She is a Fellow of theRoyal Astronomical Society of New Zealand (RASNZ) and co-director of its "Comets and Minor Planets" section.[2][3] Kilmartin is one of eleven voting members of theInternational Astronomical Union's working group onSmall Bodies Nomenclature, which is responsible for naming asteroids.[4]
The minor planet3907 Kilmartin, discovered byMax Wolf in 1904, was named in her honour.[2] Naming citation was published on 21 April 1989 (M.P.C. 14482).[5] In 1983, the Eunomia asteroid2537 Gilmore was already named after both, Alan and Pamela Gilmore.[6]
In May 2019, Kilmartin and her husband were honoured by New Zealand Post with a stamp in itsNew Zealand Space Pioneers series.[7]
In the2025 King’s Birthday Honours, Kilmartin was appointed aMember of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to astronomy.[8]
| 2434 Bateson[A] | 27 May 1981 |
| 3087 Beatrice Tinsley[A] | 30 August 1981 |
| 3152 Jones[A] | 7 June 1983 |
| 3305 Ceadams[A] | 21 May 1985 |
| 3400 Aotearoa[A] | 2 April 1981 |
| 3521 Comrie[A] | 26 June 1982 |
| 3563 Canterbury[A] | 23 March 1985 |
| 3810 Aoraki[A] | 20 February 1985 |
| 4154 Rumsey[A] | 10 July 1985 |
| 4243 Nankivell[A] | 4 April 1981 |
| 4248 Ranald[A] | 23 April 1984 |
| 4409 Kissling[A] | 30 June 1989 |
| 4819 Gifford[A] | 24 May 1985 |
| 4837 Bickerton[A] | 30 June 1989 |
| 5207 Hearnshaw[A] | 15 April 1988 |
| 5251 Bradwood[A] | 18 May 1985 |
| 5311 Rutherford[A] | 3 April 1981 |
| 5718 Roykerr[A] | 4 August 1983 |
| (5763) 1982 MA[A] | 23 June 1982 |
| (5818) 1989 RC1[A] | 5 September 1989 |
| (5898) 1985 KE[A] | 23 May 1985 |
| (5906) 1989 SN5[A] | 24 September 1989 |
| (6034) 1987 JA[A] | 5 May 1987 |
| (6142) 1993 FP[A] | 23 March 1993 |
| (7432) 1993 HL5[A] | 23 April 1993 |
| (8481) 1988 LH[A] | 14 June 1988 |
| (8884) 1994 CM2[A] | 12 February 1994 |
| (9018) 1987 JG[A] | 5 May 1987 |
| (9750) 1989 NE1[A] | 8 July 1989 |
| (11080) 1993 FO[A] | 23 March 1993 |
| (13510) 1989 OL[A] | 29 July 1989 |
| (13511) 1989 RD1[A] | 5 September 1989 |
| (13552) 1992 GA[A] | 4 April 1992 |
| (15712) 1989 RN2[A] | 1 September 1989 |
| (18340) 1989 OM[A] | 29 July 1989 |
| (21130) 1993 FN[A] | 23 March 1993 |
| (30945) 1994 GW9[A] | 14 April 1994 |
| (48501) 1993 FM[A] | 23 March 1993 |
| (58158) 1989 RA[A] | 1 September 1989 |
| (65718) 1993 FL[A] | 23 March 1993 |
| (422979) 2003 PX10[A] | 4 August 2003 |
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