Frederick Pilcher (born 1939) is a retired physics professor and a prolific photometrist of minor planets at his private Organ Mesa Observatory (G50) in New Mexico, United States.
[4] After his retirement he moved to New Mexico, United States, and established his Organ Mesa Observatory (G50) in 2007.
The observatory is located approximately 5 miles southeast of Las Cruces, New Mexico, and is dedicated to photometric research on asteroids.
[1] Pilcher is a member of the Astronomical Society of Las Cruces, which is known for its research on small Solar System body, and its prolific members such as Clyde Tombaugh and Berton L. Stevens, who discovered more than 50 minor planets at his Desert Moon Observatory (448) in La Cruces.
[2] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 April 1982 (M.P.C.