899 Jokaste
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Max Wolf |
| Discovery site | Heidelberg |
| Discovery date | August 3, 1918 |
| Designations | |
| 1918 EB | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch August 18, 2005 (JDCT 2453600.5) | |
| Aphelion | 3.489 AU |
| Perihelion | 2.333 AU |
| 2.911 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.199 |
| 4.967 a | |
| 157.349° | |
| Inclination | 12.432° |
| 252.824° | |
| 126.098° | |
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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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