Named in honor of Pamela Ann Jones, of the Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, in appreciation of her organization of many conferences in planetary sciences, particularly two international conferences held in June–July 1991, “Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 91” in Flagstaff and “Near-Earth Asteroids” in San Juan Capistrano. (M 18648) _ _.
Discovered on 15-5-1977 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.