Quaoar

1. A Kuiper belt object that, with a diameter of about 1,288 km (800 mi), is the largest such object so far discovered. Quaoar is approximately the size of Charon, Pluto's moon, and has a nearly circular orbit at a distance of some 1.6 billion km (1 billion mi) beyond that of Pluto.

Example Sentences

“This implies that Quaoar is a more complex system than we initially thought.”

From New York Times

The ring of Quaoar is too small and too faint to be seen via direct imaging, even with an instrument as powerful as the Hubble Space Telescope.

From Scientific American

Quaoar orbits the sun in the Kuiper belt, a region of frozen debris beyond Neptune that includes Pluto.

From New York Times

Along the way, each of China’s probes would independently study targets such as Jupiter, Neptune and some select KBOs such as the dwarf planet Quaoar.

From Scientific American

Kathy Mandt, a planetary scientist, has been exploring the potential for Interstellar Probe to fly past Uranus, Neptune or an icy body in the Kuiper belt called Quaoar.

From Washington Post