Quaoar (minor-planet designation: 50000 Quaoar) is a large ringed Kuiper belt object, one of many 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, and is …

May 9, 2014 · Quaoar is a planetoid that lies beyond Pluto's orbit in the solar system. Its discovery in 2002, as well as subsequent discoveries of other small worlds, led to a new classification …

Feb 8, 2023 · Quaoar is an icy body about half the size of Pluto that’s located in the Kuiper Belt at the solar system’s edge (SN: 8/23/22). At such a great distance from Earth, it’s hard to get a clear...

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. Quaoar has one known moon, named Weywot. It also has a ring.

Aug 31, 2016 · 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. NASA explores the unknown in air and space, innovates for the benefit of humanity, and inspires the world through discovery.

Jun 4, 2002 · Quaoar, officially designated as 50000 Quaoar, provisional designation 2002 LM60, is a non-resonant trans-Neptunian object (cubewano) and the fourth dwarf planet[1] from the Sun, in the Kuiper belt, one of the outermost regions of the Solar System.

Feb 8, 2023 · During a break from looking at planets around other stars, ESA’s CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (Cheops) mission has observed a dwarf planet in our own Solar System and made a decisive contribution to the discovery of a dense ring of material around it. The dwarf planet is known as Quaoar.

Dec 9, 2022 · 50000 Quaoar (2002 LM60) is a Dwarf Planet, located in the Kuiper Belt, an area of space past the orbit of Neptune. Quaoar's name and number is allocated to it by the Minor Planet Center (MPC), part of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

Aug 27, 2015 · Quaoar, a dwarf planet that orbits within the Kuiper Belt, was discovered in 2002 by astronomers from Caltech. Like the discovery of Eris, its existence has added to the classification...

Feb 8, 2023 · Quaoar, which orbits the sun in the distant Kuiper belt, is the latest small object shown to have a ring like the ones around Saturn. An artist’s concept of Quaoar, a small icy world about four...