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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Space. I'm Clara Moskowitz. Got a minute?
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2 .All four of our solar system's gas giants sport rings, the gaudiest of course being those of Saturn.
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3 .But they're not alone.
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4 .A body called 10199 Chariklo orbits between Saturn and Uranus.
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5 .And a close examination has revealed that it too has rings.
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6 .Chariklo is the largest of a class of objects called centaurs, which have characteristics of both asteroids and comets.
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7 .They can display glowing comas if they're kicked in close to the sun.
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8 .The European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile and other South American telescopes found that Chariklo hosts two dense circular rings made of ice and pebbles.
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9 .They lie roughly 400 kilometers out from Chariklo, itself just 250 kilometers wide.
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10 .The discovery is in the journal Nature.
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11 .One theory behind the unusual situation is that another body crashed into Chariklo,
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12 .and the material ejected by the collision coalesced into the rings.
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13 .Chariklo could eventually lose its special status if the rings gather up and form a moon.
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14 .Asteroids with moons are commonplace.
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15 .But for now, this ringed Centaur is truly a horse of a different color.
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16 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Space. I'm Clara Moskowitz.
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