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Beyond Jupiter, The World of Distant Minor Planets: (2060) Chiron
JOA 2020, Vol. 10, No. 2, Page 20 Author(s): Mike KretlowAbstract: (2060) Chiron aka 95P/Chiron is a large Centaur showing cometary activity and possibly hosts a ring system. Comparisons to both 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 (outbursts) and (10199) Chariklo (ring system) are obvious. Centaurs are regarded as small bodies, moving in unstable, non-resonant, orbits between Jupiter and Neptune, and being in a transition phase between Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNO) and other populations of the inner Solar System, notably Jupiter-Family Comets (JFC). Chiron is one target of a proposed NASA Discovery programmemission named Centaurus.