(5046) Carletonmoore Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 28 February 1981 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring.
A professor of chemistry and geology at Arizona State University, Carleton Moore (b. 1932) performed carbon, nitrogen, and sulphur analyses on Apollo lunar samples. Carleton is the founding director of the Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University and was editor of the journal Meteoritics for 20 years.Naming citation (20001013/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Carletonmoore is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Carletonmoore is 2.69 au from the Sun and 3.66 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 5046 |
| Provisional designation | 1981 DQ |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 6.38 km (#8,409 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.329 |
| Rotation period | 6.05 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.22 |
| Orbital period | 4.14 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.58 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.40 – 2.75 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0679 |
| Inclination | 13.4° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.41 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 28 February 1981
- (2780) Monnig
- (2958) Arpetito
- (3287) Olmstead
- (3307) Athabasca
- (3602) Lazzaro
- (3805) Goldreich
- (4052) Crovisier
- (4192) Breysacher
- (4473) Sears
- (4523) MIT
- (4989) Joegoldstein
- (5308) Hutchison
More named asteroids discovered by S. J. Bus
- (2285) Ron Helin
- (2780) Monnig
- (2791) Paradise
- (2884) Reddish
- (2919) Dali
- (2980) Cameron
- (2981) Chagall
- (2990) Trimberger
- (3000) Leonardo
- (3029) Sanders
- (3030) Vehrenberg
- (3042) Zelinsky
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