Dwarf planet
Quaoar
Quaoar is a dwarf planet beyond Neptune.
It has two thin rings, farther out than theory said rings could last, and one moon, Weywot.
See it live
Where it is right now is on the live 3D map.
Key facts
- Catalogue
- 50000 Quaoar
- Diameter
- 1 098 km
- One lap of the Sun
- 284 years
- Closest to the Sun
- 41.64 au
- Farthest from the Sun
- 44.7 au
- Moons
- Weywot
How the map draws it
Drawn as a plain round body of its measured size — the kind of thing, not this exact one.