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...
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Ring system (section Quaoar)
a widely separated ring around the dwarf planet and Kuiper belt object Quaoar. Further analysis of the occultation data uncovered a second inner, fainter...
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Chinigchinix (redirect from Quaoar (mythology))
Chengiichngech, Chinigchinix, Chinigchinich, Changitchnish, etc.), also known as Quaoar (also Qua-o-ar, Kwawar, etc.) and by other names including Ouiamot, Tobet...
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planets – in rough order of size, Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong, Quaoar, Ceres, Orcus, and Sedna. Considering the ten largest candidates adds Salacia...
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hydrostatic equilibrium: planetologists generally include at least Gonggong, Quaoar, Orcus, and Sedna. (In practice the requirement for hydrostatic equilibrium...
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trans-Neptunian objects which were collectively referred to as the "seven dwarfs": Quaoar in 2002, Sedna in 2003, Haumea, Salacia and Orcus in 2004, and Makemake...
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found that Quaoar has an ellipsoidal shape incompatible with hydrostatic equilibrium for its current spin. They hypothesised that Quaoar originally had...
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Solar System has at least nine dwarf planets: Ceres, Orcus, Pluto, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris, and Sedna. There are a vast number of small Solar...
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the outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, and potentially Sedna and Quaoar. Uranus exhibits the ideals of the 18th century, when people such as Benjamin...
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astronomers are also known to have natural satellites: Orcus, Pluto, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, and Eris. As of January 2022, there are 447 other minor...
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ones generally agreed among astronomers are Ceres, Orcus, Pluto, Haumea, Quaoar, Makemake, Gonggong, Eris, and Sedna. Ceres is the largest object in the...
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that astronomers generally accept as dwarf planets: Orcus, Pluto, Haumea, Quaoar, and Makemake. Some of the Solar System's moons, such as Neptune's Triton...
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opposite of matter.: 263 The discovery of a large trans-Neptunian object, Quaoar, in October prompted reconsideration of how to define a planet, including...
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Naming of moons (section Quaoar)
of Neptune, 5 of Pluto, 2 of Haumea, and 1 each of Eris, Gonggong, and Quaoar. Names have also been given to some satellites of minor planets. The number...
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Pluto. Members of the classical Edgeworth–Kuiper belt include 15760 Albion, Quaoar and Makemake. Another subclass of Kuiper belt objects is the so-called scattering...
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Eris (the hand of Eris, ⯰, but also ⯱), Sedna, Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong, Quaoar and Orcus which are in Unicode. All (except Eris, for which the hand of...
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Twotinos Cubewanos (classical objects) Haumea, a dwarf planet Namaka Hiʻiaka Quaoar, a dwarf planet Weywot Makemake, a dwarf planet (307261) 2002 MS4 120347...
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Charon compared to other dwarf planets (Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong, Quaoar, Orcus, Ceres) and to the icy moons Triton (Neptune I), Titania (Uranus...
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Makemake, the largest known cubewano[citation needed] and a dwarf planet 50000 Quaoar and 20000 Varuna, each considered the largest TNO at the time of discovery...
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Moons of Haumea Ring of Haumea Makemake Moon of Makemake Quaoar Moon of Quaoar Rings of Quaoar Orcus Moon of Orcus Scattered disc Eris Moon of Eris Gonggong...
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the IAU. There are also several dwarf planet candidates such as Gonggong, Quaoar, Sedna, and Orcus. Most TNOs have low albedos typically around 0.09. Their...
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not been verified as having been fluent speakers. The minor planet 50000 Quaoar was named after the Tongva creator god. The Gabrielino language is a subgroup...
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and 1500 km (more than half that of Pluto) have been discovered. 50000 Quaoar, a classical KBO discovered in 2002, is over 1000 km across. Makemake and...
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and, to a lesser extent, Ceres,. Eris, Makemake,: 8 Sedna, Gonggong, and Quaoar.: 8 In the case of Pluto and the other dwarf planets, there is comparatively...
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50000 may refer to: 50000 Quaoar, a dwarf planet in the Solar System 50,000, a natural number This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the...
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Kuiper belt and scattered disk may turn out to be dwarf planets. Orcus, Quaoar, Gonggong, and Sedna are generally agreed to be dwarf planets among astronomers...
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Morgado; et al. (8 February 2023). "A dense ring of the trans-Neptunian object Quaoar outside its Roche limit". Nature. 614 (7947): 239–243. Bibcode:2023Natur...
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largest moon of Pluto 1.280 Mm – Diameter of the trans-Neptunian object 50000 Quaoar 1.436 Mm – Diameter of Iapetus, one of Saturn's major moons 1.578 Mm – Diameter...
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found that Quaoar has an ellipsoidal shape incompatible with hydrostatic equilibrium for its current spin. They hypothesised that Quaoar originally had...
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