899 Jokaste
Encyclopedia
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
.
Minor planet
An asteroid group or minor-planet group is a population of minor planets that have a share broadly similar orbits. Members are generally unrelated to each other, unlike in an asteroid family, which often results from the break-up of a single asteroid...
orbiting the Sun
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields...
. It was one of five minor planets included in the 1993 study, Transition Comets -- UV Search for OH Emissions in Asteroids
Transition Comets -- UV Search for OH Emissions in Asteroids
Hubble search for transition comets was a study involving amateur astronomers and the use of the Hubble Space Telescope...
, which was research involving amateur astronomers who were permitted to make use of the Hubble Space Telescope. Not to be confused with Iocaste
Iocaste (moon)
Iocaste , also known as ', is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaii led by Scott S...
, a moon of Jupiter
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant along with Saturn,...
.