[Photos: Saturn's Glorious Rings Up Close] After its discovery in 1977, Chiron was classified as the first "centaur" — a body between Jupiter and Pluto with characteristics common to both ...

Once all the precious images and spectra are collected to ... the Kuiper Belt planet Haumea and around another large Centaur, Chiron. As a result, we now know that solid bodies, even those only ...

Named 2060 Chiron, this 125-mile-wide (200km) asteroid-comet hybrid is a type of body known as a Centaur, named after ... By analysing near-infrared images, the researchers have carefully ...

Chiron was first considered an asteroid when it was discovered in 1977. However, as the years have gone, it is now considered a minor planet part of Centaur. Chiron orbits between Saturn and ...

We propose that several short duration events observed in past stellar occultations by Chiron were produced by ... a rotational lightcurve in 2000 from images taken at CASLEO 2.15-m telescope ...

Recently, astronomers announced that data collected on the centaur Chiron as it passed in front of a bright star in 2011 suggest that it may possess a circulating disk of debris -- albeit invisibl ...

The horse's backside he refers to is his latest incarnation, the half-man, half-horse god, Chiron the Centaur, which he depicts in the forthcoming family action-adventure Percy Jackson And The ...

The hero of the Trojan War, Achilles was trained in the art of healing wounds by the centaur Chiron.” And, indeed, when Eurypylus asks Patroclus to use medicine he learned about from Achilles ...

they say it's also possible that the features extending from Chiron could be a shell or jets spraying material off the surface of the centaur. "If we want to make a strong case for rings around ...

By analysing near-infrared images, the researchers have carefully ... t have the ice needed to create a tail. 2060 Chiron was the first of the 'Centaur' bodies to be discovered.

“These results are like nothing we’ve seen before,” said researcher Charles Schambeau of the “oddball” centaur ... images nearly bring tears to astronomers’ eyes Now, Chiron can ...