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What is the YORP effect?

Question #150844. Asked by serpa.
Last updated Mar 23 2024.
Originally posted Mar 23 2024 8:57 AM.

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The simple part...
YORP is an acronym that combines four scientist's names: Yarkovsky, O'Keefe, Radzievskii, and Paddack.

The not so simple part...
The YORP effect spins/down up asteroids due to the radiation of thermal energy from an asymmetrical figure.

link https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020AAS...23527701C/abstract

a further explanation can be found here...
link https://www.planetary.org/articles/20141211-the-yorp-effect-and-bennu




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