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Jane Luu

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Image:Luu.JPG |right|thumbnail|200px|Dr. Jane Luu
Dr. Jane Luu (a.k.a. Jane X. Luu until mid-2002) is a Vietnamese American astronomer.

Luu came to the United States as a refugee, when the communist government of North Vietnam took over the nation of South Vietnam. She applied to Stanford University and graduated in 1984.

She was a professor, but left academia and no longer works in astronomy. After spending time at Leiden University in the Netherlands, Luu returned to the United States and works on instrumentation as a technical staff member at Lincoln Laboratory at MIT.

She co-discovered the first known Kuiper belt object, (15760) 1992 QB1|(15760) 1992 QB<sub>1</sub>, with David C. Jewitt. She was awarded the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy in 1991. The asteroid 5430 Luu is named in her honor.

She has co-discovered a few asteroids:
  • 10370 Hylonome

  • (15760) 1992 QB1|(15760) 1992 QB<sub>1</sub>

  • (15809) 1994 JS

  • (15836) 1995 DA???

  • (15874) 1996 TL66|(15874) 1996 TL<sub>66</sub>

  • (15875) 1996 TP66|(15875) 1996 TP<sub>66</sub>

  • (19308) 1996 TO66|(19308) 1996 TO<sub>66</sub>

  • (20161) 1996 TR??????

  • (24952) 1997 QJ???

  • (24978) 1998 HJ?????????

  • (26375) 1999 DE9|(26375) 1999 DE<sub>9</sub>

  • (33001) 1997 CU??????

  • (58534) 1997 CQ??????

  • (59358) 1999 CL?????????

  • (60608) 2000 EE?????????

  • (66652) 1999 RZ?????????

  • (79360) 1997 CS??????

  • (79969) 1999 CP?????????

  • (79978) 1999 CC?????????

  • (79983) 1999 DF???

External links


  • http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?db_key=AST&sim_query=YES&ned_query=YES&lpi_query=YES&iau_query=YES&aut_xct=NO&aut_logic=OR&obj_logic=OR&author=Luu%2C+J&object=&start_mon=&start_year=&end_mon=&end_year=&ttl_logic=OR&title=&txt_logic=OR&text=&nr_to_return=100&start_nr=1&start_entry_day=&start_entry_mon=&start_entry_year=&min_score=&jou_pick=ALL&ref_stems=&data_and=ALL&group_and=ALL&sort=SCORE&aut_syn=YES&ttl_syn=YES&txt_syn=YES&aut_wt=1.0&obj_wt=1.0&ttl_wt=0.3&txt_wt=3.0&aut_wgt=YES&obj_wgt=YES&ttl_wgt=YES&txt_wgt=YES&ttl_sco=YES&txt_sco=YES&version=1 NASA Astrophysics Data System publication listing

  • http://www.imagiverse.org/interviews/janeluu/jane_luu_21_03_03.htm Interview (March 2003)

  • http://amateurastronomy.org/Events/EH326.html Comet Impact on McMaster (presentation summary, November 2001)

  • http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~placerda/lpg3.html Leiden Planetary Group listing (August 2001)

  • http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/1998/mayjun/classnotes/featurealum2.html Scoping the Cosmos (Stanford Magazine, May/June 1998)


Category:American astronomers|Luu, Jane
Category:Vietnamese Americans|Luu, Jane
Category:Women scientists|Luu, Jane
Category:Asteroid discoverers|Luu, Jane

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