Amy B. Jordan (astronomer)

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

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