Detecting an asteroid has two surrounding rings

This is the first time astronomers have discovered two rings surrounding an asteroid in the solar system.

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Brazilian scientists on March 26 revealed a surprising finding that they have just observed two rings surrounding an asteroid in the solar system called Choriklo.

According to astronomers' explanation, in addition to the 8 planets that work fairly well in the circular orbit in the solar system, there are many other asteroids (small celestial groups) floating around orbit stability.

Asteroid Choriklo with 2 belts (Photo: ESO)

Typically, such belts appear only around large solar planets in Saturn, such as Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus or Neptune, but this is the first time astronomers have discovered two The belt surrounds a "small object" in the Solar System.

Professor Julio Carmago of the University of Rio de Janeiro said they happened to see a small object appear momentarily inside these two circles. The operating trajectory of this double belt system lies between Saturn and Uranus.

Professor Carmago said: 'Our job is to locate an entire area to identify strange objects floating around. Incidentally, we discovered that the double belt system is hiding a special star inside. What's more interesting is that for the first time we discovered the presence of two circles surrounding small objects'.

The team of scientists initially measured the width of the outer circle at about 7 km while the smaller circle was 3 km. These two circles are about 9km apart. Through analysis of light, the components of these two circles seem to change over time at very clear times.

Now scientists are trying to analyze the gravitational force between two surrounding rings and the middle object. Although so far, scientists have not identified how the two asteroid belts were formed, but they named them along the two rivers of Brazil Oiaqpoque and Chui. One theory is that they were formed after some major collision in the universe.