Jane Luu

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Jane Luu (a.k.a. Jane X. Luu) 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, 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 number of 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

[edit] External links

• NASA Astrophysics Data System publication listing
• Interview (March 2003)
• Comet Impact on McMaster (presentation summary, November 2001)
• Leiden Planetary Group listing (August 2001)
• Scoping the Cosmos (Stanford Magazine, May/June 1998)