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Yarkovsky-O'Keefe-Radzievskii-Paddack effect
The Yarkovsky-O'Keefe-Radzievskii-Paddack effect, or YORP effect for short, is a second-order variation on the Yarkovsky effect which causes a small body (such as an asteroid) to spin up or down. The term was coined by Dr.
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