Jane Luu
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Dr. Jane Luu (a.k.a. Jane X. Luu until mid-2002) is a Vietnamese American astronomer.
She 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, she 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, with David C. Jewitt. She was awarded the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy in 1991. The asteroid 5430 Luu is named in her honour.
She has co-discovered a few asteroids:
- 10370 Hylonome
- (15760) 1992 QB1
- (15809) 1994 JS
- (15836) 1995 DA2
- (15874) 1996 TL66
- (15875) 1996 TP66
- (19308) 1996 TO66
- (20161) 1996 TR66
- (24952) 1997 QJ4
- (24978) 1998 HJ151
- (26375) 1999 DE9
- (33001) 1997 CU29
- (58534) 1997 CQ29
- (59358) 1999 CL158
- (60608) 2000 EE173
- (66652) 1999 RZ253
- (79360) 1997 CS29
- (79969) 1999 CP133
- (79978) 1999 CC158
- (79983) 1999 DF9
External links
- NASA Astrophysics Data System publication listing (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)
- Interview (http://www.imagiverse.org/interviews/janeluu/jane_luu_21_03_03.htm) (March 2003)
- Comet Impact on McMaster (http://amateurastronomy.org/Events/EH326.html) (presentation summary, November 2001)
- Leiden Planetary Group listing (http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~placerda/lpg3.html) (August 2001)
- Scoping the Cosmos (http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/1998/mayjun/classnotes/featurealum2.html) (Stanford Magazine, May/June 1998)Template:Astronomer-stub