2060 Chiron 🪐

2060 Chiron is a small Solar System body in the outer Solar System, orbiting the Sun between Saturn and Uranus. Discovered in 1977 by Charles Kowal, it was the first-identified member of a new class of objects now known as centaurs—bodies orbiting between the asteroid belt and the Kuiper belt.

Discovered: 18 October 1977

Orbital period: 50 years

Radius: 135.69 km

Orbits: Sun

Angular diameter: 0.035" (max)

Argument of perihelion: 339.68°