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Centaur (planetoid)
The
centaurs
are a class of icy planetoids that
orbit
the
Sun
between
Jupiter
and
Neptune
, named after the mythical race of
centaurs
. The first three discovered were
2060 Chiron
,
5145 Pholus
and 7066 Nessus.