5430 Luu (1988 JA1) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 12 1988 by C. S. Shoemaker at Palomar. The asteroid 5430 Luu is named in honor of Vietnamese American astronomer Jane Luu for her research and discovering the first and subsequent members of the Kuiper Belt.Photometric observations of this asteroid collected during 2006 show a rotation period of 13.55 ± 0.02 hours with a brightness variation of 0.06 ± 0.02 magnitude.
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