Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Moon . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... What changed our view of Chariklo is the discovery of a ring system around it, the first such feature found around a Solar System body smaller than a gas giant planet. ... Almost certainly the rings were born when a collision with a smaller asteroid blasted millions of tonnes of debris off CharikloтАЩs surface. ... A ring system detected around the Centaur (10199) Chariklo (Braga-Rigas et al.) ...

MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL VISITATION BY THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS HELD IN THE OBSERVATORY BOARDROOM AT 10.40 A.M. ON 23 MARCH 2012 Present: His Grace, the Most Reverend A.E.T. Harper (Chairman), Canon W.M. Adair, Mr W.G. Berry, Dean G. Dunstan, Archdeacon R.G. Hoey, Professor R. Oudmaijer, Canon R.J.N. Porteus and Professor S. Smartt Canon J.N.T. Campbell, Canon J.W. McKegney, and Canon C.F. Moore Dr T. Mason, ... MINUTES BOARD OF GOVERNORS 23 March 2012 Page 8 5. ...