First Ring System Around Asteroid

First Ring System Around Asteroid
La Silla, Chile (ESO) Mar 27, 2014 - Observations at many sites in South America, including ESO's La Silla Observatory, have made the surprise discovery that the remote asteroid Chariklo is surrounded by two dense and narrow rings. This is the smallest object by far found to have rings and only the fifth body in the Solar System - after the much larger planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - to have this feature. The or ... more

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