Biography
Jane Luu, with David Jewitt, spent five years searching for objects beyond Neptune and in 1992 found the first one, (15760) Albion. Their discovery confirmed the existence of the Kuiper Belt — the vast reservoir of icy bodies that includes Pluto — and reshaped our picture of the outer Solar System.
Scientific contributions
- Co-discovered the first Kuiper Belt object beyond Pluto (1992)
- Helped establish the Kuiper Belt as a real population of bodies
Major discoveries
Knowledge connections
- Part ofContemporary Astronomy
- DiscoveredThe First Kuiper Belt Object
Sources & references
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- BritannicaEncyclopaedia Britannica
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- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
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