Asteroids named after people called Carol
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(9025) Polanskey
Carol A. Polanskey (b. 1960) is a science operations expert at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She led the spacecraft operations planning for the Dawn mission team that optimized the science return for the study of Vesta.Discovered 16 September 1988 by S. J. Bus, Cerro Tololo
(9211) Neese
Trained in stellar astronomy, Carol Lynn Neese (b. 1958) turned to solar system studies in 1992, joining the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, making physical studies of minor planets and archiving data from ground-based and spacecraft communities into the Small Bodies Node of the NASA Planetary Data System.Discovered 19 September 1995 by Spacewatch, Kitt Peak
(10724) Carolraymond
Carol A. Raymond (b. 1960) is a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who served as the project scientist and deputy principal investigator for the Dawn mission to Vesta. She headed the geophysics working group studying Vesta's interior structure.Discovered 5 November 1986 by E. Bowell, Anderson Mesa
(16078) Carolhersh
Carol Hersh mentored a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors. She teaches at the Great Neck South High School, Great Neck, New York.Discovered 9 September 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro
(16230) Benson
Named in honor of Carol Benson for mentoring a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors. Benson is a teacher at the University High School, Normal, Illinois.Discovered 9 March 2000 by LINEAR, Socorro
(17789) Carolcarty
Carol Carty mentored a finalist in the 2020 Regeneron Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors. She teaches at the Watchung Hills Regional High School, Warren, New Jersey.Discovered 20 March 1998 by LINEAR, Socorro
(19821) Caroltolin
Carol Tolin mentored a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge, a middle school science competition. She teaches at the Honey Creek Middle School, Terre Haute, Indiana.Discovered 24 September 2000 by LINEAR, Socorro
(22868) Karst
Carol A. Karst mentored a finalist in the 2006 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition. She teaches at the Sunburst Elementary School, Sunburst, Montana.Discovered 9 September 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro
(22947) Carolsuh
Carol Yoon Joo Suh (b. 1989) is a finalist in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for her medicine and health project. She attends the Palos Verdes Peninsula High School, Rolling Hills Estates, California.Discovered 15 October 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro
(23013) Carolsmyth
Carol Smyth mentored a finalist in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors. She teaches at the Walter Tresper Clarke High School, Westbury, New York.Discovered 14 November 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro
(26935) Vireday
Carol Claire Vireday (b. 1957) is the wife of the discoverer.Discovered 15 March 1997 by C. B. Luginbuhl, Flagstaff USNO
(27413) Ambruster
Carol Ambruster (1943-2013) did pioneering research on magnetic activity and flares of cool stars. She led Chaco Canyon work providing evidence for an early Navajo sun-watching tradition. Carol was the epitome of a perspicuous observer, with consummate interests also in music, art and history, and the natural world.Discovered 11 March 2000 by CSS, Catalina
(157421) Carolpercy
Carol Percy (b. 1964), a professor at the University of Toronto, studied James Cook's 1768-1771 Endeavour journal and how it was “corrected” for publication. She has also examined the social impact of the standardization of English, especially as it relates to those marginalized and/or educationally disadvantaged.Discovered 8 October 2004 by Glinos, T., Levy, D. H., Levy, W., Vail-Jarnac
(246345) Carolharris
Carol E. Harris (b. 1940) is Professor Emeritus at the University of Victoria. She has worked as an arts educator in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, and continues her research on community development, aesthetic and moral philosophy, and organizational theory. Name suggested by E. Shkolnik.Discovered 11 October 2007 by L. H. Wasserman, Anderson Mesa
(282630) Caroljones
Carol Evelyn Jones née Millar (b. 1957) is a Canadian astronomer whose research focuses on circumstellar disk-like distributions of material, computational astrophysics, emission-line stars and Be stars. She was the Chair of the International Astronomical Union's Division G Working Group on Active B stars from 2015 to 2021.Discovered 3 September 2005 by P. A. Wiegert, Mauna Kea