Carpenter is a core member of the Eos family (606), the largest asteroid family in the outer main belt consisting of nearly 10,000 asteroids.
[3][4][7]: 23 It orbits the Sun in the outer main-belt at a distance of 2.8–3.2 AU once every 5 years and 3 months (1,913 days).
[5] This minor planet was named after American astronomer Edwin Francis Carpenter (1898–1963), second director of the Steward Observatory who researched spectroscopic binaries and interacting galaxies.
He played a major role in enabling the construction of the Kitt Peak National Observatory.
[2] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 April 1980 (M.P.C.