Quaoar (minor-planet designation: 50000 Quaoar) is a ringed dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a band of icy planetesimals beyond Neptune. It has a slightly ellipsoidal shape with an average diameter of …

May 9, 2014 · Quaoar is a planetoid that lies in the Kuiper Belt, a region of space beyond Pluto that is filled with icy bodies.

Feb 22, 2007 · 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 …

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.

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 · 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 …

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 …

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Aug 13, 2025 · Quaoar, officially designated (50000) Quaoar, is a dwarf planet located in the Kuiper Belt. Discovered in 2002 by astronomers Chad Trujillo and Michael Brown, it orbits the Sun at an …

Sep 12, 2022 · Quaoar is an asteroid in the Kuiper Belt and is also referrred to as being a Trans-Neptunian Object because it orbits further from the Sun than Neptune.