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Icy rings found around tiny space rock

Surprise discovery reveals belt around planetoid orbiting between Saturn and Uranus

PUT A RING ON IT  A pair of thin, icy rings loop around the 250-kilometer-wide planetoid Chariklo, shown in an artist’s illustration. 

Lucie Maquet

By Christopher Crockett

- More than 2 years ago

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All of the giant planets in our solar system — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — are adorned with rings.