Ivan Yarkovsky

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Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky (Polish: Jan Jarkowski; 24 May 1844, Asveya – 22 January 1902, Heidelberg) was a Polish-Russian civil engineer who also studied physics. He suggested that asteroids and planetary objects could shift their orbits due to asymmetric heating from the sun caused due to their rotation.

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