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 (95625) 2002 GX32, a resonant Kuiper belt object at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile.[2] She also co-discovered two main-belt asteroids.[1] 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

• List of minor planet discoverers § A. B. Jordan

Publications

• Chiang, EI, Jordan, AB, (2002). On the Plutinos and Twotinos of the Kuiper belt.[3]
• Chiang, EI, Jordan, AB, Millis, RL et al. (2003). Resonance occupation in the Kuiper belt: Case examples of the 5: 2 and Trojan resonances.[4]

References

External links

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

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