Pamela M. Kilmartin
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Pamela Margaret Kilmartin Template:Post-nominals is a New Zealand astronomer and a co-discoverer of minor planets and comets.[2]
Career
Kilmartin is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 41 asteroids, all in collaboration with her husband, the astronomer Alan C. Gilmore.[1] 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.[2][3] 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.[4]
The minor planet 3907 Kilmartin, discovered by Max Wolf in 1904, was named in her honour.[2] Naming citation was published on 21 April 1989 (M.P.C. 14482Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".).[5] In 1983, the Eunomia asteroid 2537 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 its New Zealand Space Pioneers series.[7]
In the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours, Kilmartin was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to astronomy.[8]
List of discovered minor planets
| 2434 Bateson <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 27 May 1981 |
| 3087 Beatrice Tinsley <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 30 August 1981 |
| 3152 Jones <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 7 June 1983 |
| 3305 Ceadams <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 21 May 1985 |
| 3400 Aotearoa <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 2 April 1981 |
| 3521 Comrie <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 26 June 1982 |
| 3563 Canterbury <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 23 March 1985 |
| 3810 Aoraki <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 20 February 1985 |
| 4154 Rumsey <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 10 July 1985 |
| 4243 Nankivell <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 4 April 1981 |
| 4248 Ranald <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 23 April 1984 |
| 4409 Kissling <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 30 June 1989 |
| 4819 Gifford <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 24 May 1985 |
| 4837 Bickerton <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 30 June 1989 |
| 5207 Hearnshaw <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 15 April 1988 |
| 5251 Bradwood <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 18 May 1985 |
| 5311 Rutherford <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 3 April 1981 |
| 5718 Roykerr <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 4 August 1983 |
| (5763) 1982 MA <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 23 June 1982 |
| Template:Mpl <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 5 September 1989 |
| (5898) 1985 KE <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 23 May 1985 |
| Template:Mpl <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 24 September 1989 |
| (6034) 1987 JA <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 5 May 1987 |
| (6142) 1993 FP <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 23 March 1993 |
| Template:Mp <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 23 April 1993 |
| Template:Mp <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 14 June 1988 |
| Template:Mp <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 12 February 1994 |
| (9018) 1987 JG <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 5 May 1987 |
| Template:Mp <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 8 July 1989 |
| Template:Mp <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 23 March 1993 |
| Template:Mp <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 29 July 1989 |
| Template:Mp <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 5 September 1989 |
| Template:Mp <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 4 April 1992 |
| Template:Mp <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 1 September 1989 |
| Template:Mp <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 29 July 1989 |
| Template:Mp <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 23 March 1993 |
| Template:Mp <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 14 April 1994 |
| Template:Mp <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 23 March 1993 |
| Template:Mp <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 1 September 1989 |
| Template:Mp <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 23 March 1993 |
| Template:Mp <templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[A] | 4 August 2003 |
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