Editing C. Michelle Olmstead (section)

==Career==

She is credited by the [[Minor Planet Center]] with the discovery of 46 asteroids for the period between 1977 and 1990. In 1990, with [[Henry E. Holt]], she co-discovered [[127P/Holt-Olmstead]], a [[periodic comet]] that bears her name.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bowell |first1=E. |last2=Holt |first2=H. E. |last3=Olmstead |first3=C. M. |last4=Holt |first4=H. R. |last5=Brown |first5=J. A. |last6=Bus |first6=S. J. |date=1990-09-01 |title=Comet Holt-Olmstead (1990k) |url=https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1990IAUC.5093....1B |journal=International Astronomical Union Circular |issue=5093 |pages=1 |bibcode=1990IAUC.5093....1B |issn=0081-0304}}</ref> 

The minor planet [[3287 Olmstead]], a [[Mars-crosser]] asteroid discovered by astronomer [[Schelte J. Bus]] in 1981, was named in her honour.<ref name="springer" /> Her lowest numbered discovery, {{mpl|(5633) 1978 UL|7}}, officially discovered at [[Palomar Observatory]] in 1978, and presumably taken on [[photographic plate]]s by Tom Gehrels shortly after the last [[Palomar–Leiden Survey]] campaign, had its discovering astrometric observation published on 12 September 1992 ({{small|[[Minor Planet Circular|M.P.C. 20706]]}}).<ref name="MPC-5633" /><ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />