Amy B. Jordan (astronomer)

This article is about the astronomer. For the research investigator, see Amy B. Jordan (media investigator).

Minor planets discovered: 3 

see § List of discovered minor planets

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. 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

(95625) 2002 GX32	8 April 2002	list
(543956) 2014 QQ387	1 April 2003	list
(545187) 2011 BR93	1 April 2003	list
Co-discovery made with: A M. W. Buie B J. L. Elliot

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

External links

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