• The Yarkovsky–O'Keefe–Radzievskii–Paddack effect, or YORP effect for short, changes the rotation state of a small astronomical body – that is, the body's...
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    Rubincam coined the term Yarkovsky–O'Keefe–Radzievskii–Paddack effect (YORP effect) to describe how sunlight can alter the spin rates and orientations...
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    rate of this object provided the first observational evidence of the YORP effect, hence the name of the asteroid. The asteroid's rate of rotation is increasing...
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    at least the next 100 years. Asteroid Poynting–Robertson effect Radiation pressure YORP effect Beekman, George (2005). "The nearly forgotten scientist...
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  • Yorp or YORP may refer to one of the following: 54509 YORP, an Earth co-orbital asteroid Yarkovsky–O'Keefe–Radzievskii–Paddack effect, a second-order...
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    acceleration by the Yarkovsky effect and gradual rotational acceleration by the Yarkovsky–O'Keefe–Radzievskii–Paddack (YORP) effect. High-mass ratio and doubly-synchronous...
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    hypothesized to be fragments of Eureka that were detached after the YORP effect accelerated Eureka's rotational period to the present 2.69 hours. The...
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    the YORP effect. Numerical simulations suggest that when solar energy spins a “rubble pile” asteroid to a sufficiently fast rate by the YORP effect, material...
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    The analysis of its rotation provided observational evidence of the YORP effect. It is named after the Greek god Apollo. He is the god of the Sun, child...
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    Effect". Icarus. 148 (1): 147–152. Bibcode:2000Icar..148..147V. doi:10.1006/icar.2000.6468. S2CID 55356387. Collins, M. D. (2020). "The YORP Effect Can...
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    surface, which is called the Yarkovsky–O'Keefe–Radzievskii–Paddack (YORP) effect, is responsible for rotationally accelerating asteroids to the point...
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    angular momentum and entered into this tumbling motion as a result of the YORP effect. With a semimajor axis of 2.5294 AU, or roughly 2.5 times the distance...
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    (U=3/3/3/2/3/3/3). The Yarkovsky effect is causing a decrease in the orbital semimajor axis of 27.4±5.7 m yr−1, while the YORP effect is increasing the asteroid's...
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    of the asteroid carries the warm surface out of the Sun's view (the YORP effect). Nanostructures with spectrally selective thermal emittance properties...
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    fragments of 5261 Eureka that were detached after it was spun up by the YORP effect (consistent with its rotational period of 2.69 h). The infrared spectrum...
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  • Wulff and Karl Heinz Dötz Yarkovsky effect – Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky YORP effect – Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky, John A. O'Keefe, Vladimir Vyacheslavovich...
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    belt and near-Earth population and most are thought to be formed by the YORP effect causing an asteroid to spin so fast that it breaks up. As of 2012, and...
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    that affects its motion. The YORP effect is a collection of effects expanding upon the earlier concept of the Yarkovsky effect, but of a similar nature....
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    study. 354P/LINEAR (P/2010 A2) Yarkovsky–O'Keefe–Radzievskii–Paddack effect (YORP effect) Bolin, B.; et al. (27 August 2013). "CBET #3639 : P/2013 P5 (PANSTARRS)"...
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    2007). "Spin Rate of Asteroid (54509) 2000 PH5 Increasing Due to the YORP Effect" (PDF). Science. 316 (5822): 274–277. Bibcode:2007Sci...316..274T. doi:10...
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    retrograde rotation. Dimorphos's rotation is being slowed down by the YORP effect, with an estimated rotation period doubling time of 86,000 years. However...
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    sunlight reflecting off its irregular surface, a phenomenon known as the YORP effect. The asteroid likely reached a rotation period shorter than 2 hours before...
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    introduction of H-G1-G2 asteroid magnitude system and to the discovery of the YORP effect for several asteroids. In 2022 the observational station was occupied...
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    Solar System (e.g., asteroids) was developed into the Yarkovsky effect and the YORP effect, thanks to his rediscovery by Estonian astronomer Ernst J. Öpik...
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    models from combined dense and sparse photometry and scaling of the YORP effect by the observed obliquity distribution". Astronomy and Astrophysics....
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    He is credited with the discovery of the Yarkovsky effect and the co-discovery the YORP effect. Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński, Polish philosopher, mathematician...
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  • rotating rapidly, with a rotation period of only 3.2 hours. Due to the YORP effect, P/2012 F5 had begun to spin so quickly that, being a likely rubble pile...
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    Yarkovsky–O'Keefe–Radzievskii–Paddack effect, also known as YORP effect – Second-order variation on the Yarkovsky effect that changes rotation rates of small...
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    models from combined dense and sparse photometry and scaling of the YORP effect by the observed obliquity distribution". Astronomy and Astrophysics....
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    period of 10.2 hours. Its rotation period is slowly increasing due to the YORP effect. "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 1685 Toro (1948 OA)" (2021-02-16 last...
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