Named in honor of Joan D. (Jody) Swann, planetary data librarian at the U.S. Geological Survey. Her 25 years of experience in nearly every phase of lunar and planetary exploration have enabled her to establish the world’s most complete and functional archive of photographs, maps, spacecraft images and supporting data on the solid bodies of the solar system. Recently, she has utilized this archive to prepare outstanding color mosaics of Mars. (M 15576) _ _.
Discovered on 12-2-1985 in Palomar by Shoemaker, C. S.