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Centaurs

Small icy bodies that orbit the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune with unstable, planet-crossing orbits, behaving partly like asteroids and partly like comets. A body belongs here when its cited article calls it a centaur. Members are placed here from their own cited Wikipedia articles, each with a verbatim supporting quotation, so a reader can check why an entry sits in this group. The grouping forms part of the browse path for this section of the atlas.

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Chariklo (Wikipedia)
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10199 Chariklo ( KARR-ə-kloh) is a ringed asteroid and centaur in the outer Solar System.
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2060 Chiron (Wikipedia)
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Discovered in 1977 by Charles Kowal, it was the first-identified member of a new class of objects now known as centaurs-bodies orbiting between the asteroid belt and the Kuiper belt.
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