50000 Quaoar - Wikipedia
WEBQuaoar (minor-planet designation: 50000 Quaoar) is a large, ringed trans-Neptunian object in the Kuiper belt, a region of icy planetesimals beyond Neptune. It has an elongated ellipsoid shape with an average diameter of 1,090 km (680 mi), about half the size of the dwarf planet Pluto .
Astronomers Discover Unexpected Ring around Distant Dwarf Planet
WEBFeb 8, 2023 · The distant dwarf planet 50000 Quaoar appears to have a ring that spans far beyond where it ought to be stable. “That is not where it was supposed to be,” says Bruno Morgado (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), lead author of a team of 59 astronomers who report the discovery in Nature.
ESA’s Cheops finds an unexpected ring around dwarf planet Quaoar
WEBFeb 8, 2023 · The presence of a ring at a distance of almost seven and a half times the radius of Quaoar, opens up a mystery for astronomers to solve: why has this material not coalesced into a small moon?
The Dwarf Planet Quaoar - Universe Today
WEBAugust 27, 2015 by Matt Williams. The Dwarf Planet Quaoar. The vast Kuiper Belt, which orbits at the outer edge of our Solar System, has been the site of many exciting discoveries in the past...
A dense ring of the trans-Neptunian object Quaoar outside its …
WEBFeb 8, 2023 · Here we report observations of an inhomogeneous ring around the trans-Neptunian body (50000) Quaoar. This trans-Neptunian object has an estimated radius 4 of 555 km and possesses a roughly...
Quaoar - NASA Science
WEBAug 31, 2016 · NASA explores the unknown in air and space, innovates for the benefit of humanity, and inspires the world through discovery. 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 the size of Pluto.
Dwarf planet hosts a ring that’s unexpectedly far from the planet
WEBFeb 8, 2023 · A dwarf planet called 50000 Quaoar that orbits beyond Neptune appears to have a ring that shouldn't be there, at 7.4 times more distant than the planet's radius. There are a couple of ideas...
The Kuiper Belt's dwarf planet Quaoar hosts an impossible ring
WEBFeb 8, 2023 · News Astronomy. The Kuiper Belt’s dwarf planet Quaoar hosts an impossible ring. The ring lies outside a typical, mathematically determined distance from the small world. Dwarf planet Quaoar,...
50000 Quaoar - Wikiwand
WEBQuaoar ( minor-planet designation 50000 Quaoar) is a large, ringed trans-Neptunian object in the Kuiper belt, a region of icy planetesimals beyond Neptune. It has an elongated ellipsoid shape with an average diameter of 1,090km (680mi), about half the size of the dwarf planet Pluto.
50000 Quaoar - Wikiwand
WEBJun 4, 2002 · 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 the California Institute of Technology.
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