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27th Mar 2014 from TwitLonger

Astronomers have discovered something they never knew existed before: the first asteroid with rings. The 160-mile-wide space rock, known as Chariklo, has two dense, narrow rings, making it only the fifth ringed world known to exist in the solar system, after Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune.

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/first-ever-asteroid-rings-knocks-astronomers-loop-n62266

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