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Pamela Margaret Kilmartin is a New Zealand astronomer and a co-discoverer of minor planets and comets.

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. 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.

In the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours, Kilmartin was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to astronomy.

List of discovered minor planets

2434 Bateson 27 May 1981 3087 Beatrice Tinsley 30 August 1981 3152 Jones 7 June 1983 3305 Ceadams 21 May 1985 3400 Aotearoa 2 April 1981 3521 Comrie 26 June 1982 3563 Canterbury 23 March 1985 3810 Aoraki 20 February 1985 4154 Rumsey 10 July 1985 4243 Nankivell 4 April 1981 4248 Ranald 23 April 1984 4409 Kissling 30 June 1989 4819 Gifford 24 May 1985 4837 Bickerton 30 June 1989 5207 Hearnshaw 15 April 1988 5251 Bradwood 18 May 1985 5311 Rutherford 3 April 1981 5718 Roykerr 4 August 1983 5763 Williamtobin 23 June 1982 5 September 1989 23 May 1985 24 September 1989 5 May 1987 6142 Tantawi 23 March 1993 23 April 1993 14 June 1988 12 February 1994 9018 Galache 5 May 1987 8 July 1989 23 March 1993 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

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