Editing Yarkovsky effect (section)

==History of discovery==
The effect was discovered by the Polish-Russian<ref>{{cite journal |first=George |last=Beekman |title=The nearly forgotten scientist John Osipovich Yarkovsky |journal=Journal of the British Astronomical Association |volume=115 |issue=4 |pages=207 |year=2005 |bibcode=2005JBAA..115..207B |url=http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/2005JBAA..115..207B |format=PDF |access-date=2021-08-12 |archive-date=2021-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812010109/http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/2005JBAA..115..207B |url-status=live }}</ref> civil engineer [[Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky]] (1844&ndash;1902), who worked in Russia on scientific problems in his spare time. Writing in a pamphlet around the year 1900, Yarkovsky noted that the daily heating of a rotating object in space would cause it to experience a force that, while tiny, could lead to large long-term effects in the orbits of small bodies, especially [[meteoroid]]s and small [[asteroid]]s. Yarkovsky's insight would have been forgotten had it not been for the [[Estonia]]n astronomer [[Ernst J. Öpik]] (1893&ndash;1985), who read Yarkovsky's pamphlet sometime around 1909. Decades later, Öpik, recalling the pamphlet from memory, discussed the possible importance of the Yarkovsky effect on movement of meteoroids about the [[Solar System]].<ref>{{cite journal |first=E. J. |last=Öpik |title=Collision probabilities with the planets and the distribution of interplanetary matter |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy |volume=54A |pages=165–199 |year=1951 |jstor=20488532 |bibcode=1951PRIA...54..165O }}</ref>