Natural Satellites Service. Special ephemerides
  Apparent Encounters
of the Outermost Satellites of Jupiter
 
by M.Varfolomeev, N.Emelyanov

Topics
  • We present the precalculated circumstances of the apparent encounters of the outermost satellites of Jupiter for the years 2005 through 2010.
  • The higher accuracy of observations is reached at the periods of apparent encounters of satellites when two satellites fall within the same CCD frame.
  • To obtain the difference in coordinates of satellites we do not need data from stellar catalogs. In addition, inaccuracies existing in planetary theories do not significantly influence the process of refinement of orbital parameters made on the basis of such observations.
  • For the outermost planetary satellites the apparent encounters are very rare, and the periods of apparent encounters are short.
  • We present the precalculated circumstances of the apparent encounters of the following satellites of Jupiter:
    J6-J13,J17-J20,J23,J24,J27
    for the years 2005 through 2010.

See:

Article to this subject
Explications to the ephemerides tables
Ephemerides:
table3.dat
table4.dat
table5.dat
table6.dat
table7.dat
table8.dat

Acknowledgements: This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 03-02-17441.


Celestial mechanics department / Sternberg Astronomical Institute / Moscow University