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 centaursābodies orbiting between the asteroid belt and the Kuiper belt.
Discovered: 18 October 1977
Orbital period: 50Ā years
Radius: 135.69Ā km
Orbits: Sun
Angular diameter: 0.035" (max)
Argument of perihelion: 339.68Ā°
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