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Ring in the new

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Planets are no longer the only Solar System bodies sporting ring systems. Two dense rings have been detected encircling a Centaur object — a relatively small, icy interloper from the distant reaches of the Solar System. See Letter p.72

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Figure 1: Chariklo's rings.

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  1. Joseph A. Burns is in the Departments of Astronomy and of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.,

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