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	Jane Luu -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jane X. Luu until mid-2002) is a (additional info and facts about Vietnamese American) Vietnamese American (A physicist who studies astronomy) astronomer.
		She was awarded the (additional info and facts about Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy) Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy in 1991.
		The (Any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter)) asteroid 5430 Luu is named in her honour.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/jane_luu.htm (183 words)

	EXN.ca \| Discovery
		Luu and her colleagues at the Universities of Hawaii and Arizona found the planetesimal in the expanse of universe known as the Kuiper Belt -- a region populated by the small, glacial remains of former planets.
		Scientists were fortunate to locate the object given that it spends most of its 1000 year orbit too far away from the sun to be detected, she adds.
		Luu and her team of astronomers are optimistic that planetesimals like 1996 TL66 with similar features can be found.
	www.exn.ca /Stories/1997/06/04/03.asp (448 words)

	May/June 1998 Feature Alum, Jane Luu, '84
		Luu spends her nights searching the sky through the lens of a powerful telescope at the summit of an extinct volcano some 14,000 feet above sea level.
		Luu, who has made the trip for each of the last 10 years, got her big reward in 1992, when she discovered a chunk of ice and rock orbiting the sun at the far reaches of the solar system.
		Luu began looking for the Kuiper Belt in 1987 as a first-year graduate student at MIT.
	www.stanfordalumni.org /news/magazine/1998/mayjun/classnotes/featurealum2.html (474 words)

	S&T News Bulletin - April 7
		Observers Jane Luu and David Jewitt have discovered the bulk of these far-flung objects.
		Luu says that some clumping in space seems to exist among the ones found so far, and several appear to have orbital periods in resonance with that of Neptune, as does Pluto.
		Luu expects to begin a more concerted search soon that could net as many as 100 of these so-called Kuiperoids over a three-year period.
	astro.uchicago.edu /home/web/RAS/RAS/SKYTELnews/msg00022.html (570 words)

	Science News: Distant object hints at the Kuiper belt. (1992 ... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jewitt, of the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, and Luu, of the University of California, Berkeley, report their work in a Sept. 14 circular of the International Astronomical Union.
		Jewitt and Luu say that in identifying the distant body, dubbed 1992 QB1, they may well have found one of planetary science's Holy Grails: the first image of a resident of the belt.
		Jewitt emphasizes that because of the brightening moon, he and Luu have so far monitored the faint body for only three nights with the University of Hawaii's 2.2-meter telescope -- not long enough to determine whether 1992 QB1 really belongs to the Kuiper belt.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:12699019&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (857 words)

	The International School of Amsterdam
		Students were researching famous astronomers in their 7th grade Science class and noticed that in the introduction of their science text there was an interview with Dr. Luu.
		Luu is the astrophysicist who along with her co-worker David Jewitt discovered the Kuiper Belt in 1992.
		Anna Konishi, a student in the class, emailed the Leiden University, got Dr. Luu's email address and sent her a note asking if she would be willing to visit our school.
	www.isa.nl /Alumni/Voices2003/speakers.html (749 words)

	Event Horizon Volume 3 2 Comet Impact on McMaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In her lecture, Dr. Luu touched upon a number of aspects including the composition, structure, and origin of comets.
		Dr. Luu explained that comets may be monitored for periodic variations in brightness which indicate a rotation of their nuclei.
		In addition, Dr. Luu noted that if the orbital inclination of these short-period comets was conserved during capture, it would be hard to explain the fact that short- period comets are by nature low inclination objects.
	amateurastronomy.org /Events/EH326.html (697 words)

	Plutinos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Discoverers Jane Luu (Harvard University) and her colleagues calculate that 1996 TL66 is now close to the perihelion of a much more eccentric orbit, one with a semimajor axis of 84 a.u.
		Luu's group estimates that thousands more bodies of comparable size and distance await discovery within 30 degrees of the ecliptic plane.
		1996 TL66 was first imaged last October by Jane Luu, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and Dave Jewitt, University of Hawaii, during an observing run with two of Jewitt's students on the 2.2-m telescope the University of Hawaii maintains on Mauna Kea.
	www.xs4all.ch /~carlkop/plutino.html (1263 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jane Luu is a modern day Clyde Tombaugh, searching for objects at the edge of our solar system.
		Jane Luu spent five years searching through the cosmic noise without any luck.
		Jane Luu found the very first of these Kuiper belt objects and has since found twenty-seven more.
	www.glue.umd.edu /~katyn/project/sosy/sosy001011.txt (320 words)

	Archimedes Plutonium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Using a 2.2-meter telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, David C. Jewitt of the University of Hawaii and Jane Luu of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics found an object roughly 100 kilometers across beyond Pluto.
		Indeed, Jewitt and Luu point out (3) that, given the limited number of discoveries to date, they cannot rule out a Gaussian-size distribution for the Kuiper belt objects, in which there would only be large bodies and no comet-size bodies with diameters of 1 to 10 kilometers.
		Luu's comment quoted in Kerr's article that the population can be extrapolated from the ground-based discoveries, appears to contradict her own paper (3).
	www.iw.net /~a_plutonium/File078.html (7861 words)

	Chapter 18: Meteorites and Asteroids
		Jane X. Luu and David C. Jewitt, discoverers of objects in the Kuiper Belt, have reviewed the topic in "The Kuiper Belt," Scientific American, May 1996, pp.
		Since such an object was discovered in 1992 by David Jewitt of the University of Hawaii and Jane Luu, now at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, an additional sixteen objects have been found.
		Based on the rate such objects have been found given the small amount of sky searched for them, Jewitt and Luu estimate that there may be 35,000 objects larger than 100 km in diameter outside Neptune's orbit.
	www.williams.edu /astronomy/jay/ETU4/chapter18 (845 words)

	Kuiper Belt Articles in Refereed Journals (sorted by author)
		Luu, Jane X. and Jewitt, David C. Deep Imaging of the Kuiper Belt with the Keck 10 Meter Telescope
		Luu, Jane X. and Jewitt, David C. Reflection Spectrum of the Kuiper Belt Object 1993 SC
		Luu, Jane X. and Jewitt, David C. Optical and Infrared Reflectance Spectrum of Kuiper Belt Object 1996 TL 66
	www.boulder.swri.edu /ekonews/articles/kb_ref_author.html (2113 words)

	King of the Kuiper Belt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Assuming it has a dark surface, the new find is rather large and could be up to 500 km (300 miles) in diameter.
		Discoverers Jane Luu (Harvard University) and her colleagues calculate that 1996 TL66 is now close to the perihelion of a much more eccentric orbit, one with a semimajor axis of 84 AU and a period of nearly 800 years.
		Luu's group estimates that thousands more bodies of comparable size and distance await discovery within 30° of the ecliptic plane.
	helios.augustana.edu /astronomy/1996tl66.html (246 words)

	The Objects of His Affection
		They made their discovery by using a charge-coupled device (CCD) attachment on the telescope, which made the telescope more light-sensitive and therefore able to pick up very faint objects.
		Luu’s Berkeley office happened to be three doors down from then graduate student Brown’s, and Luu soon called him with the news.
		Like any astronomer worth his or her lens, Brown was slightly skeptical at first.
	pr.caltech.edu /periodicals/CaltechNews/articles/v33/n3.brown.html (1494 words)

	NewStandard: 6/5/97
		At its most distant, it wanders three times farther from the sun than Pluto, tracing a looping, oblong path into an astronomical terra incognita.
		Luu discovered the new object, known as 1996TL66, with colleagues from Harvard, the University of Hawaii and the University of Arizona, as well as an amateur astronomer based in Cloudcroft, N.M. They describe the find in today's issue of the journal Nature.
		Luu and her colleagues found the object at the very beginning of a systematic search for objects at the edge of the solar system.
	www.s-t.com /daily/06-97/06-05-97/a08wn033.htm (631 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		2 Luu and Jewitt (1996) Luu, J.X. and Jewitt, D.C. Color diversity among the Centaurs and Kuiper belt objects.
		6 Jewitt and Luu (1998) Jewitt, D.C. and Luu, J.X. Optical-infrared spectral diversity in the Kuiper belt.
		17 Jewitt and Luu (2001) Jewitt, David, and Jane Luu 2001.
	pdssbn.astro.umd.edu /SBNast/archive/TNOPHOT/tnorefs.tab (338 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Luu&Jewitt1996 Luu, J.X. and Jewitt, D.C. Color diversity - among the Centaurs and Kuiper belt objects.
		Jewitt&Luu1998 Jewitt, D.C. and Luu, J.X. Optical-infrared - spectral diversity in the Kuiper belt.
		Nolletal2000 Noll, K.S., J. Luu, and D. Gilmore 2000.
	www.psi.edu /pds/archive/astdata04/tnocencol/tnocenrefs.tab (748 words)

	The New York Times > Science > Astronomers Contemplate Icy Volcanoes in Far Places
		In an article also appearing in today's Nature, David Jewitt of the University of Hawaii and Jane Luu of the Lincoln Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who together discovered the first Kuiper Belt Object in 1992, report the presence of crystalline water ice on the largest known Kuiper Belt Object, Quaoar (pronounced KWAH-war).
		That means the crystalline ice seen by Dr. Jewitt and Dr. Luu must have formed or been exposed relatively recently for something that has been circling at the outer reaches of the solar system for the last four billion years or so.
		In this theory, the crystalline ice spotted by Dr. Jewitt and Dr. Luu would have formed underground, but was exposed within the last few million years by a collision with a smaller Kuiper Belt Object.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/12/09/science/09ice.html?ex=1260334800&en=9326ecdbb6f20b0a&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland* (823 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He and his colleague Jane Luu of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, have carried out infrared observations of the rock, which show that the ice has a repeating crystalline pattern, similar to that seen in snowflakes.
		Another possibility is that the surface could have been warmed by the impact of tiny meteorites, but Jewitt and Luu think this is unlikely because they found ammonia trapped in Quaoar's ice.
		Calculations predict that there are at least 70,000 objects in the belt with diameters greater than 100 kilometres, providing a pool of icy objects that may supply the Solar System with short-period comets.
	www.nature.com /news/2004/041206/pf/041206-7_pf.html (624 words)

	Is There Evidence for a Young Earth?
		The result is that particles with radii between about 0.06 and 0.5 microns are actually blown out of the solar system by radiation pressure and never get a chance to fall into the sun.
		Aside from the obvious source, comets in the inner solar system, the major source of dust in the solar system is collisions between asteroids in the main asteroid belt, as well as those in the Kuiper Belt (See Jewitt & Luu, 1997; Dones, 1997; and many other papers in the same volume of ASP Proceedings).
		Maintained by David Jewitt, who along with Jane Luu has discovered most of the Kuiper Belt objects.
	www.tim-thompson.com /resp7.html (806 words)

	Scientific American: An article in the May 1996 issue of Scientific American ("The Kuiper Belt," by Jane X. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Scientific American: An article in the May 1996 issue of Scientific American ("The Kuiper Belt," by Jane X. Luu and David C. Jewitt) questioned whether Pluto "deserves the status of a full-fledged planet." What defines a true planet, and why might Pluto not qualify?
		The quote from Luu and Jewitt refers to the recent discovery of a population of giant, comet-like objects orbiting beyond Neptune, a zone called the Kuiper belt.
		Pluto lies in the vicinity of this belt, leading some astronomers to consider it the largest member of the population of small bodies at the fringe of the solar system.
	www.sciam.com /print_version.cfm?articleID=0009D053-74A9-1C72-9EB7809EC588F2D7 (1158 words)

	Kuiper Belt Articles in Refereed Journals (sorted by date)
		Large Kuiper Belt Objects: The Mauna Kea 8K CCD Survey, Jewitt, David, Luu, Jane and Trujillo, Chadwick 1998, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 115, Issue 5, pp.
		Coagulation and Velocity Evolution, Kenyon, Scott J. and Luu, Jane X. 1998, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 115, Issue 5, pp.
		Optical-Infrared Spectral Diversity in the Kuiper Belt, Jewitt, David and Luu, Jane 1998, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 115, Issue 4, pp.
	www.boulder.swri.edu /ekonews/articles/kb_ref_date.html (2510 words)

	Augusta Georgia: technology@ugusta: Icy miniplanet found in solar system's farthest reaches 6/4/97
		``It's the first object in a sort of no man's land, an area we never thought we could get a glimpse of with our current technology,'' said Jane Luu, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass.
		Luu discovered the new object, known as 1996TL66, with colleagues from Harvard, the University of Hawaii and the University of Arizona, as well as an amateur astronomer based in Cloudcroft, N.M. They describe the find in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.
		Some researchers had an inkling that the object would be out there, however.
	www.augustachronicle.com /stories/060597/tech_tiny.html (658 words)

	CBC News: Warm signs detected from distant icy world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Astronomers David Jewitt of the Institute for Astronomy in Hawaii and Jane Luu of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say Quaoar has icy water crystals on its surface and possibly ammonia.
		Jewitt and Luu concluded the ice may have been inside the body until an impact from another rock exposed the crystals, or minerals deep within the object radioactively decayed.
		The temperature required is based on laboratory experiments, but may be different in space, noted David Stevenson, a professor of planetary science at the California Institute of Technology.
	www.cbc.ca /story/science/national/2004/12/09/Quaoar041209.html (346 words)

	Astronomy - Big KBO got a face-lift - Robert Burnham
		Using the Subaru 8-meter telescope on Mauna Kea, Jewitt (Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii) and Luu (Lincoln Laboratory, MIT) took visual and infrared spectra of Quaoar, which orbits at an average distance of 43.3 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun.
		Jewitt and Luu discovered the first Kuiper Belt object in 1992, and roughly 1,000 more are known now.
		In a commentary in the same issue of Nature where Jewitt and Luu published their results (December 8, 2004), David Stevenson of Caltech observes that an object of Quaoar's size should have a warm interior.
	www.astronomy.com /asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=2644 (798 words)

	Poll Workers
		In Santa Clara County, California, poll workers tend to be retirees but many participating in the November 2000 election are new immigrants.
		Jane Luu is a first time poll worker from Vietnam.
		She says she wishes more citizens appreciated their right to vote.
	www.acfnewsource.org /democracy/poll_workers.html (535 words)

	What Lurks in the Outer Solar System?
		The first of these strange bodies, which astronomers call Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs), came to light in 1992, discovered by Dave Jewitt and Jane Luu -- a pair of scientists who didn't believe the outer solar system was empty.
		: A 1992 discovery image of 1992 QB1 (indicated by the arrow) captured by Jewitt and Luu using the University of Hawaii's 2.2 m telescope on Mauna Kea.
		The mission of Science@NASA is to help the public understand how exciting NASA research is and to help NASA scientists fulfill their outreach responsibilities.
	science.nasa.gov /headlines/y2001/ast13sep_1.htm (1601 words)

	Astronomers Discover Apparent Outer 'Edge' to the Solar System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		These so-called "Kuiper Belt Objects" would be left over from the formation of the large planets 5 billion years ago.
		The Kuiper Belt Objects were purely hypothetical until 1992, when David Jewitt and Jane Luu of the University of Hawaii discovered the first one.
		Since that time, over 300 Kuiper Belt Objects have been discovered - but none of them are more than about 55 times as far from the sun as Earth, or 55 AU.
	uanews.opi.arizona.edu /cgi-bin/WebObjects/UANews.woa/wa/SRStoryDetails?ArticleID=2437 (786 words)

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