(5048) Moriarty
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( 5048 ) Moriarty is an asteroid of the main belt, which was discovered on April 1, 1981 by the American astronomer Edward LG Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station (IAU code 688 ) of the Lowell Observatory in Coconino County.
The asteroid was named after Professor Moriarty, the antagonist of Sherlock Holmes in the novels of Arthur Conan Doyle.