Talk:2060 Chiron

message: The page says that it will eventually fall into one of the gas giants. Is enough known about its orbit to guess when this might happen and which gas giant might consume it? Inquiring minds want to know. KellyCoinGuy
:Judging by the fact that it says it approached Saturn to within 16 million KM in 1664 and that's considered a big deal, it's probably safe to assume that if it's believed that it will fall into a gas giant it's because comets (asteroids) simply have a tendancy to do that eventually, and it you might expect it to happen some time in the next million years or so!   freshgavin TALK    04:45, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it is far more likely that a close giant planet flyby changes its orbit dramatically, possibly ejecting it from the Solar System altogether.--Jyril 16:15, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Or it might become a much more impressive comet than it currently is. ;) Double sharp (talk) 13:19, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: Did a major reorginization of the article, with the new layout modeled on the article for 90482 Orcus. I'm intending to get this article fixed up, so it can be used as an example for repairing the current state of the centaur articles. shaggy 12:26, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: Is the astrology section sourced in the Guinness Book? If not, it needs to go completely. Captainktainer * Talk 09:18, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Astrology 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified  on 2060 Chiron. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20111018154917/http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/dps.html to http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/dps.html
*Added archive http://www.webcitation.org/5gOzK38bc?url=http%3A%2F%2Fchemistry.unina.it%2F%7Ealvitagl%2Fsolex%2F to http://chemistry.unina.it/~alvitagl/solex/
*Added archive http://www.webcitation.org/5gOzK38bc?url=http%3A%2F%2Fchemistry.unina.it%2F%7Ealvitagl%2Fsolex%2F to http://chemistry.unina.it/~alvitagl/solex/
When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at ).
Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 10:54, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: IP user  recently added a picture request to this page, with comment "a real photo, not just an artist's impression". I reverted, saying that it would only happen when we send a probe to Chiron, to which IP70 replied that we can point a telescope there. Well, that looks quite unrealistic too: the closest Chiron ever comes to Earth is about 8 AU, i.e. roughly the orbit of Saturn. Now let's look at pictures of Saturn snapped by Hubble. That's the best quality we get from a telescope, with a planet of 60,000 km radius. Comparatively, Chiron has a radius of 100 km, 600 times smaller. If we pointed Hubble to Chiron, we could possibly get a picture of a few pixels wide, if albedo permits (Chiron is pretty dark). Not a chance to have anything presentable as an article illustration. Thus I would recommend removing this unrealistic picture request, and perhaps discussing it again after the James Webb telescope is operational, and of course if and when a probe to Chiron is in the works. — JFG talk 11:52, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The best we can hope for is a public domain image of a 18th magnitude "star". The image currently used seems as useful. -- Kheider (talk) 20:12, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

text: We have photos of stars in our articles, they are just dots in the night sky. I see no reason why an object discovered via photography (by Kowal in 1977) wouldn't have a photo of itself in the article about itself. It's not like it's a spectroscopic binary star that was not observed visually, this object has been observed visually. The angular diameter of Chiron is roughly comparable to that of Eris, and we have photos of that in that article. -- 70.51.200.162 (talk) 05:42, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: You make a great point: I didn't realize that the apparent magnitudes of Eris and Chiron were in the same ballpark. Here's hoping that some clever astronomer manages to get time on Hubble to snap a real picture of Chiron! — JFG talk 06:55, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

text: And Sedna at magnitude 21 was imaged by Hubble. Impressive… — JFG talk 08:27, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for a picture 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified 3 external links on 2060 Chiron. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20060525051103/http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/papers/2006/DJ06.pdf to http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/papers/2006/DJ06.pdf
*Added archive http://www.webcitation.org/5gOzK38bc?url=http://chemistry.unina.it/~alvitagl/solex/ to http://chemistry.unina.it/~alvitagl/solex/
*Corrected formatting/usage for http://chemistry.unina.it/~alvitagl/solex/
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 07:51, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified 2 external links on 2060 Chiron. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120203165459/http://home.surewest.net/kheider/astro/Chiron700AD.gif to http://home.surewest.net/kheider/astro/Chiron700AD.gif
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20130514124652/http://home.surewest.net/kheider/astro/Chiron100kd1.txt to http://home.surewest.net/kheider/astro/Chiron100kd1.txt
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 10:27, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified (January 2018) 

message: The date given is the discovery plate, not the discovery date. The actual discovery, in consciousness, was Nov. 1, 1977. This is an important distinction. There's a similar situation with almost all planets, where the plates must be reviewed for a while before the discovery is known. The earliest precovery plate is 1895. We don't list that, however.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dioxinfreak (talk • contribs) 21:02, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. Tbayboy (talk) 15:48, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong discovery date 

message: 2060 Chiron was recently confirmed to have rings thanks to a stellar occultation, I would add this myself but I am not confident, So I'll leave it to more experienced editors P1X3LZIMMY (talk) 00:33, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have a link to the recent confirmation? -- Kheider (talk) 00:50, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: sure! https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03458 it appears to be something closer to a diffuse disk, with 3 sharper bands within it P1X3LZIMMY (talk) 01:52, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confirmation of Rings