Named in honor of Dominique Bockelée-Morvan (1957– ), researcher at the Observatoire de Paris. Bockelée-Morvan has developed excitation models for cometary parent molecules with a view to preparing and interpreting radio and infrared observations, both from space and the ground. She has been involved in the identification of new cometary species and has contributed to a better understanding of the origin of the 3.4-μmband observed in comets. (M 27458) _ _.