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    The rings of Chariklo are a set of two narrow rings around the minor planet 10199 Chariklo. Chariklo, with a diameter of about 250 kilometres (160 mi)...
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    period of rotation. Infrared observations of Chariklo indicate the presence of water ice, which may in fact be located in its rings. Chariklo was discovered...
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  • detect any dust rings around Pluto. 10199 Chariklo, a centaur, was the first minor planet discovered to have rings. It has two rings, perhaps due to a...
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    2060 Chiron (redirect from Rings of Chiron)
    Okyrhoe significantly brightened. Chiron has rings, similar to the better-established rings of 10199 Chariklo. Based on unexpected occultation events observed...
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    Oyapock (category Rivers of Amapá)
    coast to coast." Rings of Chariklo, one of which is named "Oiapoque" after the river. List of rivers of French Guiana List of rivers of the Americas by...
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    has about half the diameter of Pluto. There are also several known ring systems around distant objects (see: Rings of Chariklo and Chiron). In addition to...
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    Shepherd moon (redirect from Ring shepherd)
    the rings. Chiron is also thought to have rings similar in form to those of Chariklo. A major gap in the circumstellar disk or large ring system of the...
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    found to possess a ring system. Centaur 10199 Chariklo, with a diameter of about 250 kilometres (160 mi), is the smallest object with rings ever discovered...
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    Quaoar (redirect from Rings of Quaoar)
    confinement of rings to the 1:3 spin-orbit resonance may be common among ringed small Solar System bodies, as it has been previously seen in Chariklo and Haumea...
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  • of centaurs, find if shepherd moons exist around Chariklo, and study the nature of the asteroid's rings formation. The spacecraft would be launched in September...
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    distinct population until the discovery of 2060 Chiron in 1977. The largest confirmed centaur is 10199 Chariklo, which at 260 kilometers in diameter is...
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  • targets show evidence for rings and/or cometary activity. Chiron is the second largest known centaur, by diameter, after 10199 Chariklo. Activity was identified...
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    1997) of 10199 Chariklo, an asteroid with two rings. This is the only known ringed asteroid and the smallest object yet discovered with a ring system...
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    from minor planets of the outer solar system, centaurs Pholus, Chiron and Chariklo, suggesting that Nereid formed around Neptune rather than being a captured...
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    10199 Chariklo, has a diameter of about 250 km (160 mi) and is one of the only few minor planets known to possess a ring system. Beyond the orbit of Neptune...
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  • following is a list of centaurs, a group of non-resonant small Solar System bodies whose orbit around the Sun lie typically between the orbits of Jupiter and...
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  • that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names. Official naming citations of newly named small Solar System bodies are approved and...
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  • include signs of the zodiac and classical planets. These originate from medieval Byzantine codices. Their current form is a product of the European Renaissance...
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    al. (2022) The equilibrium shape of (65) Cybele: primordial or relic of a large impact? "LCDB Data for (10199) Chariklo". Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB)...
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    Montalto, M. (July 2016). "Photometry of Centaurs and trans-Neptunian objects: 2060 Chiron (1977 UB), 10199 Chariklo (1997 CU26), 38628 Huya (2000 EB173)...
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    Orbital resonance (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from January 2021)
    resonances with Saturn's inner moons give rise to gaps in the rings of Saturn. The special case of 1:1 resonance between bodies with similar orbital radii causes...
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    3847/1538-3881/abe76d. S2CID 233545793. B. E. Morgado; et al. (8 February 2023). "A dense ring of the trans-Neptunian object Quaoar outside its Roche limit". Nature. 614...
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  • that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names. Official naming citations of newly named small Solar System bodies are approved and...
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    team led by Felipe Braga Ribas discover a ring system around the minor planet and centaur Chariklo, the first of this kind ever detected. 2014 – Rosetta...
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    2014 in science (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from December 2014)
    report the discovery of the first ring system around an asteroid (10199 Chariklo). 27 March The first synthetic chromosome is created for integration into...
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  • the resources of the Discovery mission class. Similar to other Centaurs with surrounding rings and shrouds of debris (e.g. 10199 Chariklo, 2060 Chiron)...
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