50000 Quaoar
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Quaoar (minor-planet designation: 50000 Quaoar) is a large, ringed dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a region of icy planetesimals beyond Neptune. It has an elongated ellipsoidal shape with an average diameter of 1,090 km (680 mi), about half the size of the dwarf planet Pluto.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft observations of Kuiper Belt object Quaoar ("Kwa-war"), which - at 690 miles or 1,100 kilometers in diameter - is roughly half ...
Quaoar, officially designated as 50000 Quaoar, provisional designation 2002 LM60, is a non-resonant trans-Neptunian object (cubewano) and dwarf planet in ...
50000 Quaoar (symbol: ) is a Trans-Neptunian object and is also a dwarf planet. It was discovered on June 4, 2002 by Chad Trujillo and Michael Brown at ...
Aug 27, 2015 · This includes the Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) 5000 Quaoar (or just Quaoar), which was actually discovered three years before Eris. Discovery and ...
Quaoar has no form or gender and dances and sings Weywot, Sky Father, into existence. Together, they create Chehooit, Earth Mother, and the trio bring Tamit, ...
The geometry of the ring (assumed here to be circular) is defined by its opening angle, B, and the position angle, P, of its apparent semi-minor axis, counted ...
Quaoar is one of the largest trans-Neptunian objects (TNO) we know so far and could be classified as a dwarf planet in the future.
Quaoar is a newly discovered Kuiper Belt object, found in June 2002 by Chad Trujillo and Mike Brown at Caltech in Pasadena. It's the largest Kuiper Belt object ...
Mar 9, 2024 · 50000 Quaoar is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt that measures approximately 1110 km in diameter, or about half the size of Pluto.