10199 Chariklo /ˈkærəkloʊ/ is the largest confirmed centaur, a class of minor planet in the outer Solar System.

[8] Centaurs originated in the Kuiper belt and are in dynamically unstable orbits that will lead to ejection from the Solar System, an impact with a planet or the Sun, or transition into a short-period comet.

Nonetheless, the elongated shape of Chariklo explains most of the brightness variability resulting in darker rings than previously determined.

Ring systems around minor bodies had not previously been discovered despite the search for them through direct imaging and stellar occultation techniques.

[37] Camilla is a mission concept published in June 2018 that would launch a robotic probe to perform a single flyby of Chariklo and drop off a 100 kg (220 lb) impactor made of tungsten to excavate a crater approximately 10 m (33 ft) deep for remote compositional analysis during the flyby.

[38] The mission would be designed to fit under the cost cap of NASA's New Frontiers program, although it has not been formally proposed to compete for funding.

The spacecraft would be launched in September 2026, using one gravity assist from Venus in February 2027 and Earth in December 2027 and 2029 to accelerate it out toward Jupiter.