C. Michelle Olmstead (born 21 May 1969) is an American astronomer, asteroid discoverer and computer scientist.
[2] 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 survey work.
[2] She is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 46 asteroids for the period between 1977 and 1990.
[3] The minor planet 3287 Olmstead, a Mars-crosser asteroid discovered by astronomer Schelte J.
[2] Her lowest numbered discovery, (5633) 1978 UL7, officially discovered at Palomar Observatory in 1978, and presumably taken on photographic plates by Tom Gehrels shortly after the last Palomar–Leiden Survey campaign, had its discovering astrometric observation published on 12 September 1992 (M.P.C.