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{{short description|Vietnamese American astronomer}}
{{Infobox scientist
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1963|7}}
| birth_place = [[Saigon]], [[Vietnam]]
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| fields = Astronomy, Astrophysics, Engineering
| workplaces = [[Harvard University]], [[Lincoln Laboratory]] at [[MIT]], [[Tufts University]], [[University of Oslo]]
| alma_mater = [[Stanford University]], [[University of California at Berkeley]], [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]
| thesis_title = Physical Studies of Primitive Solar System Bodies
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| thesis_year = 1992<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.ess.ucla.edu/~jewitt/cv.pdf|title=Graduate Student Advisees by David Jewitt}}</ref>
| doctoral_advisor = [[David C. Jewitt]]
| known_for = Discovery of the [[Kuiper belt]]
| awards = [[Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy]] (1991)<br/>[[Shaw Prize]] (2012)<br/> [[Kavli Prize]] (2012)
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| spouse = Ronnie Hoogerwerf
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|+ [[Minor planet]]s discovered: 37&thinsp;<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" />
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| [[10370 Hylonome]]&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}} || February 27, 1995
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| [[15760 Albion]]&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}} || August 20, 1992
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| [[(15809) 1994 JS]]&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}} || May 11, 1994
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| {{mpl|(15836) 1995 DA|2}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}} || February 24, 1995
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| {{mpl|(15874) 1996 TL|66}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|B|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}} || October 9, 1996
|-
| {{mpl|(15875) 1996 TP|66}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}} || October 11, 1996
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| {{mpl|(19308) 1996 TO|66}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}} || October 12, 1996
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| {{mpl|(20161) 1996 TR|66}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|B|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}} || October 8, 1996
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| {{mpl|(24952) 1997 QJ|4}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}}{{ref label|codisc|D|}} || August 28, 1997
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| {{mpl|(24978) 1998 HJ|151}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}}{{ref label|codisc|E|}} || April 28, 1998
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| {{mpl|(26375) 1999 DE|9}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|C|}} || February 20, 1999
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| {{mpl|(33001) 1997 CU|29}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|B|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}} || February 6, 1997
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| {{mpl|(59358) 1999 CL|158}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}} || February 11, 1999
|-
| {{mpl|(60608) 2000 EE|173}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|C|}}{{ref label|codisc|F|}} || March 3, 2000
|-
| [[66652 Borasisi]]&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}} || September 8, 1999
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| [[79360 Sila–Nunam]]&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|B|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}} || February 3, 1997
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| {{mpl|(79969) 1999 CP|133}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}} || February 11, 1999
|-
| {{mpl|(79978) 1999 CC|158}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}}{{ref label|codisc|G|}} || February 15, 1999
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| {{mpl|(79983) 1999 DF|9}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}} || February 20, 1999
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| {{mp|(91554) 1999 RZ|215}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}} || September 8, 1999
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| {{mpl|(118228) 1996 TQ|66}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|B|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}} || October 8, 1996
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| {{mp|(129746) 1999 CE|119}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}} || February 10, 1999
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| {{mp|(134568) 1999 RH|215}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}} || September 7, 1999
|-
| {{mp|(137294) 1999 RE|215}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}} || September 7, 1999
|-
| {{mpl|(137295) 1999 RB|216}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}} || September 8, 1999
|-
| {{mp|(148112) 1999 RA|216}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}} || September 8, 1999
|-
| [[(181708) 1993 FW]]&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}} || March 28, 1993
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| {{mp|(181867) 1999 CV|118}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}} || February 10, 1999
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| {{mp|(181868) 1999 CG|119}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}} || February 11, 1999
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| {{mp|(181871) 1999 CO|153}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}} || February 12, 1999
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| {{mpl|(181902) 1999 RD|215}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}} || September 6, 1999
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| [[(385185) 1993 RO]]&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}} || September 14, 1993
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| {{mp|(385201) 1999 RN|215}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}} || September 7, 1999
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| {{mp|(415720) 1999 RU|215}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}} || September 7, 1999
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| {{mpl|(469306) 1999 CD|158}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}} || February 10, 1999
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| {{mp|(503858) 1998 HQ|151}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}}{{ref label|codisc|C|}}{{ref label|codisc|E|}} || April 28, 1998
|-
| {{mp|(508770) 1995 WY|2}}&thinsp;{{ref label|codisc|A|}} || 18 November 1995
|-
! colspan=2 style="font-weight: normal; text-align: left; padding: 4px 12px; font-size: smaller;" | '''Legend to co-discoverers''':<br />
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|{{note label|codisc|A|}} [[David C. Jewitt]]
|{{note label|codisc|B|}} [[Jun Chen (astronomer)|Jun Chen]]
|{{note label|codisc|C|}} [[Chadwick Trujillo]]
|{{note label|codisc|D|}} [[K. Berney]]
|{{note label|codisc|E|}} [[David J. Tholen]]
|{{note label|codisc|F|}} N. Wyn Evans
|{{note label|codisc|G|}} [[Scott S. Sheppard]]
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'''Jane X. Luu''' ({{langx|vi|{{noitalic|'''Lưu Lệ Hằng'''}}}};<ref>Hữu Thiện, [http://vietsciences.free.fr/docbao/astronomy/janeluu.htm Jane Lưu lên núi ngắm sao...], Vietnamnet, 2004</ref> 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 E. Brown|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 [[Fall of Saigon|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.<ref name="autogenerated1">[http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/1998/mayjun/classnotes/featurealum2.html May/June 1998 Feature Alum, Jane Luu, '84. CLASS NOTABLE: JANE LUU, '84, Scoping the Cosmos] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907113628/http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/1998/mayjun/classnotes/featurealum2.html |date=2008-09-07 }} By Erika Check, '99</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://minorplanetcenter.net//iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html|title=MPC/MPO/MPS Archive|website=minorplanetcenter.net|access-date=2020-01-30}}</ref> Working at the [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]] at NASA after college inspired her to study astronomy.<ref name=":0" />
== Work as a graduate student and co-discovery of the Kuiper Belt ==
As a graduate student at the [[University of California at Berkeley]]<ref>[<!-- http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/users/wisdom/extrasolar/Brown.pdf -->http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/wisdom/extrasolar/Brown.pdf The Kuiper Belt] Michael E. Brown, [[Physics Today]], {{doi|10.1063/1.1752422}}</ref> and the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], she looked at links between asteroids and comets for her main PhD project.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2014-03-20|title=Jane X. Luu|url=http://kavliprize.org/prizes-and-laureates/laureates/jane-x-luu|access-date=2021-03-25|website=www.kavliprize.org|language=en}}</ref> She also worked with [[David C. Jewitt]] to discover the [[Kuiper Belt]],<ref name="interv">[http://imagiverse.org/interviews/janeluu/jane_luu_21_03_03.htm An Interview With...Jane Luu], 21 March 2003</ref> an area previously believed to contain no objects. In 1992, after five years of observation, they found the first known [[Kuiper Belt object]] other than [[Pluto]] and its largest moon [[Charon (moon)|Charon]], using the [[University of Hawaii]]'s 2.2 meter telescope on [[Mauna Kea]].<ref name="Luu"/><ref>[http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/88inch/2.2-meter-public.htm University of Hawaii 2.2-meter telescope - Public Information<!-- Bot generated title -->] Richard J. Wainscoat</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Maunakea's first large telescope celebrates 50 years of science {{!}} University of Hawaiʻi System News|date=26 June 2020 |url=https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2020/06/26/maunakea-telescope-celebrates-50-years/|access-date=2021-03-25|language=en-US}}</ref>  This object is [[(15760) 1992 QB1|(15760) 1992 QB<sub>1</sub>]], which she and Jewitt nicknamed "Smiley".<ref name=autogenerated1 /> The [[American Astronomical Society]] awarded Luu the [[Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy]] in 1991. In 1992, Luu received a Hubble Fellowship from the [[Space Telescope Science Institute]] and chose the [[University of California, Berkeley]] as a host institution. The Phocaea main-belt asteroid [[5430 Luu]] is named in her honor.<ref name="springer" /><ref>{{cite book | title = Marquis Who's Who | date = 2006}}</ref> She received her PhD in 1992 at MIT.
== Professional life ==
After receiving her doctorate, Luu worked as an assistant professor at [[Harvard University]], since 1994.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> Luu also served as a professor at [[Leiden University]] in the Netherlands.<ref name="interv"/>  Following her time in Europe, Luu returned to the United States and worked on instrumentation as a Senior Scientist at [[Lincoln Laboratory]] at [[MIT]], focusing on defense-industry projects, specifically lidar systems.
In December 2004, Luu and Jewitt reported the discovery of crystalline water ice on [[50000 Quaoar|Quaoar]], which was at the time the largest known Kuiper Belt object. They also found indications of ammonia hydrate.  Their report theorized that the ice likely formed underground, becoming exposed after a collision with another Kuiper Belt object sometime in the last few million years.<ref>{{cite news  | last = Chang   | first = Kenneth   | title = Astronomers Entertain Visions of Icy Volcanoes in Faraway Places |url= https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9406EFD71331F93AA35751C1A9629C8B63 | pages = A33   | work = [[The New York Times]]  | date = December 9, 2004}}</ref>
In 2012, she won (along with [[David C. Jewitt]] of the [[University of California at Los Angeles]]) the [[Shaw Prize]] "for their discovery and characterization of trans-Neptunian bodies, an archeological treasure dating back to the formation of the solar system and the long-sought source of short period comets"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shawprize.org/en/|title=The Shaw Prize - Top prizes for astronomy, life science and mathematics|website=www.shawprize.org}}</ref>
and the [[Kavli Prize]] (shared with Jewitt and [[Michael E. Brown]]) "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".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/three-researchers-win-kavli-prizes-0531.html|title=Dresselhaus, Graybiel, Luu receive 2012 Kavli Prizes|newspaper=Mit News &#124; Massachusetts Institute of Technology }}</ref>
== Personal life ==
Luu enjoys traveling, and has worked for [[Save the Children]] in [[Nepal]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2009-03-31|title=Women's History Month Profile: Jane Luu|url=https://hyphenmagazine.com/blog/2009/3/31/womens-history-month-profile-jane-luu|access-date=2021-01-15|website=Hyphen Magazine|language=en}}</ref>  She enjoys a variety of outdoor activities and plays the cello. She met her husband, [[Ronnie Hoogerwerf]], who is also an astronomer, while working in the Netherlands in a tenured position at [[Leiden University]].<ref name="interv"/> They have one child together.
== Honors, awards and accolades ==
* 1991 [[Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy]]
* 2012 [[Shaw Prize]] in Astronomy <ref>[http://www.shawprize.org/en/shaw.php?tmp=3&twoid=92&threeid=208&fourid=327 The Shaw Prize in Astronomy 2012] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020135839/http://www.shawprize.org/en/shaw.php?tmp=3&twoid=92&threeid=208&fourid=327 |date=2017-10-20 }} 29 May 2012</ref>
* 2012 [[Kavli Prize]] in Astrophysics <ref name=Kavliprize>{{cite web|url=http://www.kavlifoundation.org/2012-kavli-prize|title=2012 Kavli Prizes - The Kavli Foundation|website=www.kavlifoundation.org|access-date=2012-06-03|archive-date=2017-07-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170722052713/http://www.kavlifoundation.org/2012-kavli-prize|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=":1" />
* The asteroid [[5430 Luu]] was named in her honor on 1 July 1996 ({{small|[[Minor Planet Circulars|M.P.C.]] 27459}}).<ref name="springer" /><ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />
* She is a fellow of the [[Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dnva.no/c26849/artikkel/vis.html?tid=40118|title=Gruppe 2: Astronomi, fysikk og geofysikk|publisher=[[Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters]]|language=no|access-date=26 April 2014|archive-date=27 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927171005/http://www.dnva.no/c26849/artikkel/vis.html?tid=40118|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Selected publications ==
* [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?db_key=AST&sim_query=YES&ned_query=YES&lpi_query=YES&iau_query=YES&aut_xct=NO&aut_logic=OR&obj_logic=OR&author=Luu%2C+J&object=&start_mon=&start_year=&end_mon=&end_year=&ttl_logic=OR&title=&txt_logic=OR&text=&nr_to_return=100&start_nr=1&start_entry_day=&start_entry_mon=&start_entry_year=&min_score=&jou_pick=ALL&ref_stems=&data_and=ALL&group_and=ALL&sort=SCORE&aut_syn=YES&ttl_syn=YES&txt_syn=YES&aut_wt=1.0&obj_wt=1.0&ttl_wt=0.3&txt_wt=3.0&aut_wgt=YES&obj_wgt=YES&ttl_wgt=YES&txt_wgt=YES&ttl_sco=YES&txt_sco=YES&version=1 NASA Astrophysics Data System publication listing], Over 200 publications are listing
* {{cite journal
| last = Luu
| first = Jane
| author2 = D.C. Jewitt
| author3 = C. Trujillo
| name-list-style = amp
| title = Water ice in 2060 Chiron and its implications for Centaurs and Kuiper Belt objects
| journal = Astrophysical Journal
| volume = 531
| pages = L151–L154
| date = 2000
| doi = 10.1086/312536
| pmid = 10688775
| issue = 2
| bibcode=2000ApJ...531L.151L|arxiv = astro-ph/0002094 | s2cid = 9946112
}}
*{{cite journal
| last = Luu
| first = Jane
|author2=D.C. Jewitt
| title = Deep Imaging of the Kuiper Belt with the Keck 10-Meter Telescope  | journal = Astrophysical Journal
| volume = 502
| issue = 1
| pages = L91–L94
| date = 1998
| doi = 10.1086/311490
| bibcode=1998ApJ...502L..91L| doi-access = free
}}
*{{cite journal
| last = Luu
| first = Jane
| author2 = B. Marsden
| author3 = D.C. Jewitt
| author4 = C. Trujillo
| author5 = C. Hegenrother
| author6 = J. Chen
| author7 = W. Offutt
| name-list-style = amp
| title = A New Dynamical Class of Object in the Outer Solar System
| journal = Nature
| volume = 387
| issue = 6633
| pages = 573
| date = 1997
| doi = 10.1038/42413
| bibcode=1997Natur.387..573L
| s2cid = 4370529
}}
*{{cite journal
| last = Luu
| first = Jane
|author2=D.C. Jewitt
| title = Color Diversity among the Centaurs and Kuiper Belt Objects
| journal = Astronomical Journal
| volume = 112
| pages = 2310–2318
| date = 1996
| doi = 10.1086/118184
| bibcode=1996AJ....112.2310L}}
*{{cite journal
| last = Luu
| first = Jane
|author2=D.C. Jewitt
| title = High Resolution Surface Brightness Profiles of Near-Earth Asteroids
| journal = Icarus
| volume = 97
| issue = 2
| pages = 276–287
| date = 1992
| doi = 10.1016/0019-1035(92)90134-S
| bibcode=1992Icar...97..276L}}
*{{cite journal
| last = Luu
| first = Jane
| title = CCD Photometry and Spectroscopy of Outer Jovian Satellites
| journal = Astronomical Journal
| volume = 102
| pages = 1213–1225
| date = 1991
| doi = 10.1086/115949
| bibcode=1991AJ....102.1213L}}
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* [http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~jewitt/quaoar.html ''Crystalline Ice on Kuiper Belt Object (50000) Quaoar''] (article co-written with David Jewitt, published in the December 9, 2004 issue of Nature)
* [http://www.roe.ac.uk/~jkd/kbo_proc/luu.pdf ''The Shape Distribution of Kuiper Belt Objects''] (paper co-written with Pedro Lacerda, June 2003)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050111174419/http://www.amateurastronomy.org/Events/EH326.html ''Comet Impact on McMaster''] (presentation summary, November 2001)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070402034853/http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/users/wisdom/extrasolar/kenyonluu98.pdf ''Accretion in the Early Kuiper Belt I. Coagulation and Velocity Evolution''] (paper co-written with Scott J. Kenyon, published in May 1998 Astronomical Journal)
* [http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/journal/issues/ApJL/v494n1/975811/sc0.html ''Optical and Infrared Reflectance Spectrum of Kuiper Belt Object 1996 TL66''] (paper co-written with D.C. Jewitt, January 1998)
== References ==
{{reflist
|refs=
<ref name=Luu>{{cite journal
| last = Bartusiak
| first = Marcia
| title = The Remarkable Odyssey of Jane Luu
| journal = Astronomy
| volume = 24
| issue = 2
| pages = 46
| date = February 1996
| bibcode = 1996Ast....24...46B
| url = http://www.marciabartusiak.com/uploads/8/5/8/9/8589314/odyssey_of_jane_luu.pdf
}} [http://shawprize.org/en/shaw.php?tmp=3&twoid=92&threeid=208&fourid=348&fiveid=170 Autobiography of Jane Luu] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928042952/http://www.shawprize.org/en/shaw.php?tmp=3&twoid=92&threeid=208&fourid=348&fiveid=170 |date=2015-09-28 }} 17 September 2012</ref>
<ref name="springer">{{cite book
|title      = Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (5430) Luu
|last       = Schmadel | first = Lutz D.
|publisher  = Springer Berlin Heidelberg
|page       = 464
|date       = 2007
|isbn       = 978-3-540-00238-3
|doi       = 10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_5209 |chapter       = (5430) Luu }}</ref>
<ref name="MPC-Discoverers">{{cite web
|title      = Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)
|work       = Minor Planet Center
|url        = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPDiscsNum.html
|date       = 20 August 2016
|access-date = 25 August 2016}}</ref>
<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive">{{cite web
|title      = MPC/MPO/MPS Archive
|work       = Minor Planet Center
|url        = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html
|access-date = 13 August 2016}}</ref>
}} <!-- end of reflist -->
== External links ==
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* [https://www.science.org/content/article/no-starry-eyed-astronomer No Starry Eyed Astronomer.  ''Vijaysree  Venkatraman'' (October 2012)]
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