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Searching for Yarkovsky Among the Near-Earth Asteroids

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2008

Abstract

We report the results of a comprehensive search for evidence of the Yarkovsky effect in the orbital fits of near-Earth asteroids. The Yarkovsky effect is a subtle nongravitational acceleration on asteroids related to the anisotropic emission of thermal radiation.