Chariklo and rings around minor planets

In 2013, a team of astronomers (Braga-Ribas et al. (2014)) observed a star called UCAC4 248–108672. However, they weren’t interested in the star itself, but an object moving in front of the star: a minor planet called 10199 Chariklo. Chariklo is a centaur

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