Pillmore is asteroid #4368 and also known as 1981 JC2. Pillmore was discovered by Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker at the Palomar Observatory. Pillmore belongs to the Hirayama-family Alauda.

Pillmore is named after the American geologist Charles L. Pillmore. He died in 2003, so information on him can be taken from a public epitaph. I also found a description of his professional achievements in an explanation of the asteroid’s name. These seem to be few after decades of doing science professionally, but this is the fate of most scientists and exactly the reason why I don’t work as a professional scientist.

The name Pillmore is one of many spelling variants. These include Pilemore (pile more), Pilmer, Pilmore, Pilmuir, and Pilmoor. They are most likely all derived from the place name Pilmoor, which is the name of a wasteland fifteen miles north of the city of York in England.

So Pillmore is also a place name asteroid hinting to a place in England. Pillmore can represent inhabitants or owners of wasteland too. The epitaph of the geologist reveals that Pillmore should also indicate loving your family as well as loving the South American culture. Pillmore is certainly not relevant enough for getting empiric evidence anytime soon. I include Pillmore here because Pillmore has the discoverer, the discovery site and the Hirayama-family in common with many other asteroids, that I treated too, so that comparisons can be made.