(48416) Carmelita Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 24 January 1988 by Shoemaker, C. S., Shoemaker, E. M. at Palomar.

Carmelita Miranda (b. 1950) developed a love of astronomy while sailing the Pacific. She focused this passion into writing and presenting night-sky programs to over 25~000 children using a portable planetarium. She also demonstrated solar observations. The name was suggested by C. S. Morris and J. E. Mueller.Naming citation (20070402/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

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Where Carmelita is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Carmelita is 3.33 au from the Sun and 2.73 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	48416
Provisional designation	1988 BM2
Orbit class	Main-belt Asteroid
Absolute magnitude (H)	13.4
Orbital period	5.05 years
Semi-major axis	2.94 au
Perihelion – aphelion	2.24 – 3.65 au
Eccentricity	0.239
Inclination	16.6°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	1.31 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

Also discovered on 24 January 1988

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