Centaurs Keep Their Rings From Greedy Gas Giants

When we think of ring systems, what naturally comes to mind are planets like Saturn. It's beautiful rings are certainly the most well known, but they are not the only planet in our Solar System to have them. As the Voyager missions demonstrated, every planet in the outer Solar System - from Jupiter to Neptune - has its own system of rings. And in recent years, astronomers have discovered that even certain minor planets - like the Centaur asteroids 10199 Chariklo and 2006 Chiron - have them too. ...