Named in honor of Faith Vilas, planetary scientist at the Johnson Manned Space Center in Houston. Vilas has used high-resolution visual and near-infrared spectral measurements to search for compositional trends among outer-belt minor planets and to investigate the mineralogy of Mercury. She designed and built the coronagraph/spectrograph that was used to image the planetary disk around Beta Pictoris and is currently evaluating the hazard presented by Earth-orbiting debris for future manned missions, including NASA’s Space Station. (M 12805) _ _.