Jane Luu

{| class="wikitable floatright" style="font-size: 0.9em;" |+ Minor planets discovered: 37  |- | 10370 Hylonome  || February 27, 1995 |- | 15760 Albion  || August 20, 1992 |- | (15809) 1994 JS  || May 11, 1994 |- |   || February 24, 1995 |- |   || October 9, 1996 |- |   || October 11, 1996 |- |   || October 12, 1996 |- |   || October 8, 1996 |- |   || August 28, 1997 |- |   || April 28, 1998 |- |   || February 20, 1999 |- |   || February 6, 1997 |- |   || February 11, 1999 |- |   || March 3, 2000 |- | 66652 Borasisi  || September 8, 1999 |- | 79360 Sila–Nunam  || February 3, 1997 |- |   || February 11, 1999 |- |   || February 15, 1999 |- |   || February 20, 1999 |- |   || September 8, 1999 |- |   || October 8, 1996 |- |   || February 10, 1999 |- |   || September 7, 1999 |- |   || September 7, 1999 |- |   || September 8, 1999 |- |   || September 8, 1999 |- | (181708) 1993 FW  || March 28, 1993 |- |   || February 10, 1999 |- |   || February 11, 1999 |- |   || February 12, 1999 |- |   || September 6, 1999 |- | (385185) 1993 RO  || September 14, 1993 |- |   || September 7, 1999 |- |   || September 7, 1999 |- |   || February 10, 1999 |- |   || April 28, 1998 |- |   || 18 November 1995 |- ! colspan=2 style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left; padding: 4px 12px; font-size: smaller;" | Legend to co-discoverers:


David C. Jewitt | Jun Chen | Chadwick Trujillo | K. Berney | David J. Tholen | N. Wyn Evans | Scott S. Sheppard }}

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Jane X. Luu (}}; born July 1963) is a Vietnamese-American astronomer and defense systems engineer. She was awarded the Kavli Prize (shared with David C. Jewitt and Michael Brown) for 2012 "for discovering and characterizing the Kuiper Belt and its largest members, work that led to a major advance in the understanding of the history of our planetary system".

Luu immigrated to the United States as a refugee in 1975, when the South Vietnamese government fell. She and her family lived in refugee camps and motels before they settled in Kentucky, where she had relatives. She graduated from high school as valedictorian and then earned a scholarship to Stanford University, receiving her bachelor's degree in physics in 1984. Working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at NASA after college inspired her to study astronomy. Provided by Wikipedia
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