899 Jokaste

899 Jokaste
Discovery
Discovered by Max Wolf
Discovery site Heidelberg
Discovery date 3 August 1918
Designations
1918 EB
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 31 July 2016 (JD 2457600.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc 97.71 yr (35688 days)
Aphelion 3.4884 AU (521.86 Gm)
Perihelion 2.3242 AU (347.70 Gm)
2.9063 AU (434.78 Gm)
Eccentricity 0.20028
4.95 yr (1809.7 d)
229.912°
 11m 56.148s / day
Inclination 12.467°
252.430°
127.690°
Earth MOID 1.35068 AU (202.059 Gm)
Jupiter MOID 2.07017 AU (309.693 Gm)
Jupiter Tisserand parameter 3.220
Physical characteristics
Mean radius
13.845±0.45 km
6.245 h (0.2602 d)
0.2026±0.014
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    899 Jokaste is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was one of five minor planets included in the 1993 study, Transition Comets -- UV Search for OH Emissions in Asteroids, which was research involving amateur astronomers who were permitted to make use of the Hubble Space Telescope. Not to be confused with Iocaste, a moon of Jupiter.

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