Yanga (Yan) Roland Fernández (born June 10, 1971) is a Canadian-born Americanastronomer at theUniversity of Central Florida.

Together withScott S. Sheppard, he co-discovered theCarme group, a group ofmoons of the planetJupiter.

Born inMississauga, Ontario, Yanga grew up in New York City, Minneapolis, Washington, D.C., and went to high school inFort Myers, Florida. After undergraduate studies atCalifornia Institute of Technology, Yan received his Ph.D. at theUniversity of Maryland, College Park in 1999. As a student in 1994, he helped maintain one of the first e-mail lists used by astronomers to communicate news about a fast-breaking event, the impact ofComet Shoemaker-Levy 9 into Jupiter. From 1999 to 2005, he was a postdoctoral fellow at theInstitute for Astronomy at theUniversity of Hawaiʻi, then accepted a position as assistant professor at the University of Central Florida. His research focuses on the physical properties and evolution ofasteroids andcomets.

Asteroid12225 Yanfernández was named in his honor.

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