Amy B. Jordan (astronomer)

+ Minor planets discovered: 3 see

Amy B. Jordan is an American astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets who works at the University of Colorado.

Career In 2002 she was part of the team which discovered , a resonant Kuiper belt object at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile. She also co-discovered two main-belt asteroids. In 2005, she was a teaching assistant at the Summer Science Program, which teaches astronomy to high school students using a curriculum based on observing and calculating orbits of asteroids.

List of discovered minor planets 8 April 2002 1 April 2003 1 April 2003 Co-discovery made with: M. W. Buie J. L. Elliot

See also

Publications Chiang, EI, Jordan, AB, (2002). On the Plutinos and Twotinos of the Kuiper belt. Chiang, EI, Jordan, AB, Millis, RL et al. (2003). Resonance occupation in the Kuiper belt: Case examples of the 5: 2 and Trojan resonances.

References

External links List Of Centaurs and Scattered-Disk Objects, Minor Planet Center