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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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designation (50000)
Quaoar I;
provisional designation S/2006 (50000) 1) is a
natural satellite or moon of the trans-Neptunian
dwarf planet Quaoar. It was discovered...
- Chengiichngech, Chinigchinix, Chinigchinich, Changitchnish, etc.), also
known as
Quaoar (also Qua-o-ar, Kwawar, etc.) and by
other names including Ouiamot, Tobet...
- 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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planets – in
rough order of size, Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong,
Quaoar, Ceres, Orcus, and Sedna.
Considerable uncertainty remains over the tenth...
- five in the trans-Neptunian region: Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, and
Quaoar. Only
Pluto and
Ceres have been
confirmed to be in
hydrostatic equilibrium...
- 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...
- 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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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...
