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990 Yerkes
990
Yerkes
is a
main belt asteroid
discovered
by
Belgian-American
astronomer
George Van Biesbroeck
in
1922
, and named after the
Yerkes Observatory
.
Photometric
observations
of this
asteroid
collected
during
2009
show
a
rotation period
of
24
.
45
± 0.
05
hours
with a
brightness
variation
of 0.
35
± 0.05
magnitude
.