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 …

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 …

Sep 10, 2025 · The odd dwarf planet Quaoar might have a brand-new moon. Observations of the tiny world, made by a pair of astronomers in California, suggest it possesses either a second satellite or a …

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

Quaoar is a dwarf planet whose orbit extends beyond the orbit of Neptune. NASA JPL has not classified Quaoar as potentially hazardous because its orbit does not bring it close to Earth.

Sep 11, 2025 · Quaoar is a distant planet in the Kuiper Belt, a vast ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune. It has a radius of 345 miles and takes 286 Earth years to orbit the sun. Its one known moon is called...

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).