Pamela M. Kilmartin Explained

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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. Kilmartin is one of eleven voting members of the International Astronomical Union's working group on Small Bodies Nomenclature, which is responsible for naming asteroids.

The minor planet 3907 Kilmartin, discovered by Max Wolf in 1904, was named in her honour. Naming citation was published on 21 April 1989 . In 1983, the Eunomia asteroid 2537 Gilmore was already named after both, Alan and Pamela Gilmore.

In May 2019, Kilmartin and her husband were honoured by New Zealand Post with a stamp in its New Zealand Space Pioneers series.

List of discovered minor planets

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	27 May 1981
	30 August 1981
	7 June 1983
	21 May 1985
	2 April 1981
	26 June 1982
	23 March 1985
	20 February 1985
	10 July 1985
	4 April 1981
	23 April 1984
	30 June 1989
	24 May 1985
	30 June 1989
	15 April 1988

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	18 May 1985
	3 April 1981
	4 August 1983
	23 June 1982
	5 September 1989
	23 May 1985
	24 September 1989
	5 May 1987
	23 March 1993
	23 April 1993
	14 June 1988
	12 February 1994
	5 May 1987
	8 July 1989
	23 March 1993

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	29 July 1989
	5 September 1989
	4 April 1992
	1 September 1989
	29 July 1989
	23 March 1993
	14 April 1994
	23 March 1993
	1 September 1989
	23 March 1993
	4 August 2003
co-discovered with Alan C. Gilmore