Amy B. Jordan (astronomer)

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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 Template:Mpl, a resonant Kuiper belt object at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile.<ref name="jpldata-95625" /> She also co-discovered two main-belt asteroids.<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" /> 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

Template:Mpl	8 April 2002	Template:LoMPTemplate:Ref labelTemplate:Ref label
Template:Mp	1 April 2003	Template:LoMPTemplate:Ref label
Template:Mp	1 April 2003	Template:LoMPTemplate:Ref label
Co-discovery made with: Template:Note label M. W. Buie Template:Note label J. L. Elliot

See also

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Publications

• Chiang, EI, Jordan, AB, (2002). On the Plutinos and Twotinos of the Kuiper belt.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• Chiang, EI, Jordan, AB, Millis, RL et al. (2003). Resonance occupation in the Kuiper belt: Case examples of the 5: 2 and Trojan resonances.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

External links

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

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