# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-jarkowski
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:53:31.319Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-jarkowski"
name: "Jan Jarkowski"
slug: "jan-jarkowski"
description: "Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky 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. Objects that are rotating absorb solar radiation from one direction and radiate it back in all directions but differences in heat radiating out can cause a slight force which can alter the orbit of the object leading to a on outward or inward movement depending on the direction of velocity and thermal properties. This has sometimes been called the Yarkovsky effect."
tagline: "Polish, Russian astronomer (1844-1902)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yarkovsky.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1844-05-12"
deathDate: "1902-01-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump