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.
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