Ivan Yarkovsky

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Birth Date:
24.05.1844
Death date:
22.01.1902
Length of life:
57
Days since birth:
65688
Years since birth:
179
Days since death:
44627
Years since death:
122
Extra names:
Jan Jarkowski, Iwan Ossipowitsch Jarkowski
Categories:
Engineer
Nationality:
 pole
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Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky (24 May 1844, Asveya, Vitebsk Governorate – 22 January 1902, Heidelberg) was a Polish 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 (e.g., asteroids) was developed into the Yarkovsky effect and the YORP effect. The asteroid 35334 Yarkovsky is named in his honour †. In 1888 he also created a mechanical explanation of gravitation.

 

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