35334 Yarkovsky
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35334 Yarkovsky is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on March 31, 1997 by P. Sicoli and F. Manca at Sormano
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It is named after Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky
, discoverer of the Yarkovsky effect
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Asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...
asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
discovered on March 31, 1997 by P. Sicoli and F. Manca at Sormano
Sormano
Sormano is a comune in the Province of Como in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 45 km north of Milan and about 15 km northeast of Como....
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It is named after Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky
Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky
Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky was a Russian-Polish civil engineer. He worked for a Russian railway company and was obscure in his own time. Beginning in the 1970s, long after Yarkovsky's death, his work on the effects of thermal radiation on small objects in the solar system was developed into the...
, discoverer of the Yarkovsky effect
Yarkovsky effect
The Yarkovsky effect is a force acting on a rotating body in space caused by the anisotropic emission of thermal photons, which carry momentum...
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