Amy B. Jordan (astronomer)

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, 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.

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.