David Jewitt

…Luu met her academic adviser David Jewitt. Together, they collaborated throughout the years on many projects focused on the outer solar system, and the bodies there, such as comets, KBOs, and interstellar objects.

…finally rewarded when British astronomer David Jewitt and Vietnamese American astronomer Jane Luu found an object well beyond Neptune in an orbit with a semimajor axis of 43.9 AU, an eccentricity of only 0.0678, and an inclination of only 2.19°. The object, officially designated (15760) 1992 QB1, has a diameter…

In 1992 American astronomer David Jewitt and graduate student Jane Luu discovered (15760) 1992 QB₁, which was considered the first KBO. The body is about 200–250 km (125–155 miles) in diameter, as estimated from its brightness. It moves in a nearly circular orbit in the plane of the planetary…