Jan-Willem Pel (1943– ) is an astronomer at the University of Groningen. His main interest is photometry. He has also been project leader for a spectrograph on the Very Large Telescope. (M 43044) The citation was prepared by U. Schwarz. _ _.
Discovered on 24-9-1960 in Palomar by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.