Editing C. Michelle Olmstead

{{short description|American astronomer}}
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="font-size: 0.9em;"
|+ [[Minor planet]]s discovered: 46&thinsp;<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" />
|-
| {{mpl|(5633) 1978 UL|7}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mpl|(6360) 1978 UA|7}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(7510) 1978 UF|6}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(7914) 1978 UW|7}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(8363) 1990 RV}} || September 13, 1990
|-
| {{mp|(10998) 1978 UN|4}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(11447) 1978 UL|4}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(13907) 1977 RS|17}} || September 9, 1977
|-
| {{mp|(14319) 1978 US|5}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(14320) 1978 UV|7}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(14798) 1978 UW|4}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(17359) 1978 UP|4}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(17360) 1978 UX|5}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(17361) 1978 UF|7}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(19085) 1978 UR|4}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(23407) 1977 RG|19}} || September 9, 1977
|-
| {{mp|(23412) 1978 UN|5}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(24612) 1978 UE|6}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(27661) 1978 UK|6}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(27662) 1978 UK|7}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(29184) 1990 SL|10}} || September 17, 1990
|-
| {{mp|(30819) 1990 RL|2}} || September 15, 1990
|-
| {{mp|(32736) 1978 UE|5}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(32737) 1978 UZ|6}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(39470) 1978 UB|7}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(39471) 1978 UF|8}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(43726) 1978 UJ|5}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(48382) 1978 UC|6}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(52232) 1978 UY|4}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(52233) 1978 UQ|5}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(52234) 1978 UX|7}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(55721) 1978 UX|4}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(69232) 1978 UJ|4}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(69233) 1978 UL|6}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(73643) 1978 UA|5}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(73644) 1978 UD|7}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(85175) 1990 RS}} || September 13, 1990
|-
| {{mp|(90674) 1978 UD|5}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(90675) 1978 UQ|6}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(96158) 1978 UE|8}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(99955) 1978 UM|5}} || October 27, 1978
|-
| {{mp|(192281) 1978 UC|7}} || October 27, 1978
|}

'''C. Michelle Olmstead''' (born 21 May 1969) is an American [[astronomer]], asteroid discoverer and [[computer scientist]].<ref name="springer" />

==Early life and education==

Olmstead attended [[Northern Arizona University]] as an undergraduate student in [[physics]] and [[astronomy]] from 1989-1993, where she was a [[NASA]] undergraduate fellow and participated in several asteroid [[astrometry]] programs and made measurements using existing [[Astronomical survey|survey work]].<ref name="springer" />

==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" />

== References ==
{{Reflist
|refs=

<ref name="MPC-Discoverers">{{cite web
  |title      = Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)
  |work       = Minor Planet Center
  |url        = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPDiscsNum.html
  |date       = 23 May 2016
  |accessdate = 28 June 2016}}</ref>

<ref name="springer">{{cite book
  |title      = Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (3287) Olmstead
  |last       = Schmadel | first = Lutz D.
  |publisher  = [[Springer Berlin Heidelberg]]
  |page       = 274
  |date       = 2007
  |isbn       = 978-3-540-00238-3
  |doi       = 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_3288 |chapter       = (3287) Olmstead }}</ref>

<ref name="MPC-5633">{{cite web
  |title      = 5633 (1978 UL7)
  |work       = Minor Planet Center
  |url        = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=5633
  |accessdate = 28 June 2016}}</ref>

<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive">{{cite web
  |title      = MPC/MPO/MPS Archive
  |work       = Minor Planet Center
  |url        = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html
  |accessdate = 28 June 2016}}</ref>

}} <!-- end of reflist -->

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