[X] My Assistant

[Bjorn Jonsson]

I have been working on a small program to calculate some interesting Cassini flyby parameters using SPICE kernels I downloaded. What follows is a list of the closest approach distances, times and phase angles for most of the major satellites for the T3 and E4 flybys. I plan to spruce up my program to produce output as HTML tables and then to post (or upload to my website) the results for the entire tour sometime in the next several days/weeks.

I cannot completely guarantee that my program is free of bugs so there might be errors in the following list - I consider this rather unlikely though.

T3 flyby

Saturn
2005-Feb-17 00:57:30.000
Center range=210916 km
Phase angle=115.3

Mimas
2005-Feb-17 00:42:00.000
Center range=332784 km
Phase angle=137.0

Enceladus
2005-Feb-17 03:30:30.000
Center range=1423 km
Phase angle=114.7

Tethys
2005-Feb-17 05:37:15.000
Center range=163807 km
Phase angle=106.3

Dione
2005-Feb-17 07:27:00.000
Center range=256114 km
Phase angle=119.6

Rhea
2005-Feb-17 05:05:30.000
Center range=280724 km
Phase angle=44.2

Titan
2005-Feb-15 06:58:00.000
Center range=4152 km
Phase angle=99.0


E4 flyby

Saturn
2005-Mar-09 11:39:30.000
Center range=211244 km
Phase angle=114.8

Mimas
2005-Mar-09 12:02:15.000
Center range=371003 km
Phase angle=100.6

Enceladus
2005-Mar-09 09:08:00.000
Center range=747 km
Phase angle=43.4

Tethys
2005-Mar-09 11:44:00.000
Center range=83423 km
Phase angle=63.3

Dione
2005-Mar-09 05:52:00.000
Center range=355522 km
Phase angle=107.3

Rhea
2005-Mar-09 04:25:30.000
Center range=595351 km
Phase angle=92.4

Titan
2005-Mar-09 12:05:15.000
Center range=1006116 km
Phase angle=61.0