2060 Chiron
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2060 Chiron is a ringed small Solar System body in the outer Solar System, orbiting the Sun between Saturn and Uranus. Discovered in 1977 by Charles Kowal, it was the first-identified member of a new
Hubble Space Telescope image of Chiron and its coma, taken in 1996
Depiction of Chiron and its rings
Hyakutake Color
In planetary astronomy, a centaur is a small Solar System body that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune and crosses the orbits of one or more of the giant planets. Centaurs generally have unsta
2060 Chiron
…the Sun between Saturn and Uranus. Discovered in 1977 by Charles Kowal, it was the first-identified member of a new class of objects now known as centaurs—bodies orbiting between the asteroid belt and the Kuiper belt. Chiron is named after the centaur Chiron in Greek mythology. Although it was initially…
Phoebe, a moon of Saturn imaged by the Cassini-Huygens probe in 2004, is theorized to be a captured centaur.