The implications of these rings and how they came to be is fascinating.  Their space modeling have yielded some potentially interesting conclusions:

Chariklo is the largest member of a class known as the Centaurs and it orbits between Saturn and Uranus in the outer Solar System. The astronomers found much more than they were expecting. A few seconds before, and again a few seconds after the main occultation there were two further very short dips in the star’s apparent brightness. Something around Chariklo was blocking the light!

The rings may prove to be a phenomenon that might in turn later lead to the formation of a small moon. Such a sequence of events, on a much larger scale, may explain the birth of our own Moon in the early days of the Solar System, as well as the origin of many other satellites around planets and asteroids.

In addition to studies of asteroids like this, the findings of exoplanets may provide insight into early planetary formations as well.  Particularly kepler 452-b and a few other exoplanets may be the most exciting.