It's not just Saturn and the giant gas planets of the solar system that bear rings. For the first time, rings have been found around an asteroid.
The asteroid, known as 10199 Chariklo, is more than a billion kilometres from Earth, circling the sun in an orbit between Saturn and Uranus.
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