Named in honor of Jean Marie Kalata, a social science analyst in the Institutional Studies Office of the Smithsonian Institution. Raised in New Jersey, she lives in Alexandria, Virginia, and among other interests sings with the Congressional Chorus. She served as a volunteer with the Christian Appalachian Project in Kentucky for 18 months. (M 27460) _ _.
Discovered on 25-9-1992 in Harvard by Oak Ridge Observatory