Centaurs, these objects orbiting between Jupiter and Neptune, exhibit traits of both asteroids and comets. (2060) Chiron, in particular, has been studied by a team from the University of Central ...

The Education of Achilles, by Bénigne Gagneraux (1785). Source: Bénigne Gagneraux on Wikimedia Commons/public domain In the Iliad, Homer calls Chiron the "wisest and justest of all the centaurs ...

The strange rock mass, first spotted in 1977, has been identified as 2060 Chiron and is classified as a centaur — named for the mythological hybrid half-man, half-horse — and orbits the sun ...

Named 2060 Chiron, this 125-mile-wide (200km) asteroid-comet hybrid is a type of body known as a Centaur, named after the mythical creature that is half-horse and half-man.

Out in the blackness of space beyond Jupiter there is a wild hybrid orbiter unlike any other. It's been named Chiron and astronomers say it's a type of centaur, a half-comet-half-asteroid.

Chiron is just one of a thousand centaurs that we currently know of. Many of them are believed to have originated out beyond the frozen realm of Neptune.

Centaurs — celestial bodies that combine asteroids’ rockiness and comets’ gaseousness — are relatively rare and short-lived components of our solar system. A team of astronomers has in one of these ...

Chiron, the unique centaur: Centaurs are objects with dual characteristics, straddling the line between asteroids and comets. Chiron, discovered in 1977, is unique even among centaurs.

The James Webb telescope has focused its attention on an oddball space rock lurking between Jupiter and Neptune. The unusual "centaur," named 2060 Chiron, has features of both comets and asteroids.

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered that the centaur called 2060 Chiron is an oddball. The object, which is a minor body that orbits the sun in the expanse between Jupiter and Neptune ...