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Golevka

Golevka, officially designated 6489 Golevka, is a small near-Earth asteroid approximately 500 metres in diameter. It gained scientific fame in 2003 when it became the first celestial body for which the Yarkovsky effect was directly measured using precision radar tracking. These observations confirmed that the tiny thrust from thermal radiation could successfully be detected on a mountain-sized object.

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