50000 Quaoar (Q15586)

https://minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K08/K08O05.html

dwarf planet

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https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/second-ring-around-quaoar-puzzles-astronomers/

distant minor planet

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Minor Planet Center body ID

50000

image

Quaoar-weywot hst.jpg
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named after

Chinigchinix

object named as

Quaoar

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https:// caltech.edu/about/news/caltech-scientists-find-largest-object-solar-system-plutos-discovery-618

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20 November 2002

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https://minorplanetcenter.net//iau/ECS/MPCArchive/2002/MPC_20021120.pdf

archive URL

https://web.archive.org/web/20210920103457/https://minorplanetcenter.net//iau/ECS/MPCArchive/2002/MPC_20021120.pdf

47170

0.939±0.008

1 reference

http://www2.lowell.edu/users/grundy/tnbs/50000_2002_LM60_Quaoar.html

0.65±0.01

astronomical filter

V-R colour

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http://www2.lowell.edu/users/grundy/tnbs/50000_2002_LM60_Quaoar.html

discoverer or inventor

Chadwick Trujillo

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Minor Planet Center Database

Minor Planet Center Database

16 July 2023

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time of discovery or invention

16 July 2023

4 June 2002

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site of astronomical discovery

16 July 2023

Palomar Mountain Observatory

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16 July 2023

minor planet group

trans-Neptunian object

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16 July 2023

child astronomical body

Weywot

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16 July 2023

parent astronomical body

Sun

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apoapsis

45.13638728±0.0001208astronomical unit

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16 July 2023

periapsis

41.64027329±0.00011612astronomical unit

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16 July 2023

argument of periapsis

157.68941502±0.0027782degree

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16 July 2023

orbital eccentricity

0.040288644±0.0000013251

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16 July 2023

orbital inclination

7.99130083038±0.00000093237degree

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16 July 2023

orbital period

285.8035431±0.0011474year

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16 July 2023

rotation period

8.84hour

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The Diverse Solar Phase Curves of Distant Icy Bodies. I. Photometric Observations of 18 Trans-Neptunian Objects, 7 Centaurs, and Nereid

semi-major axis of an orbit

16 July 2023

43.38833028±0.00011612astronomical unit

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longitude of ascending node

16 July 2023

189.101268062±0.000035838degree

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16 July 2023

mean anomaly

294.42977977±0.0027218degree

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http://www2.lowell.edu/users/grundy/tnbs/50000_2002_LM60_Quaoar.html

16 July 2023

19.0

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absolute magnitude

2.42

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The two rings of (50000) Quaoar

16 July 2023

0.124±6

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radius

535±19kilometre

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"TNOs are Cool": A survey of the trans-Neptunian region. VIII. Combined Herschel PACS and SPIRE observations of nine bright targets at 70–500 μm

543±2kilometre

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The two rings of (50000) Quaoar

astronomic symbol image

Quaoar symbol (fixed width).svg
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orbit diagram

Quaoar-Weywot orbit diagram top.png
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epoch

February 25, 2023

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16 July 2023

provisional designation

2002 LM60

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16 July 2023

Unicode character

🝾

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has part(s)

rings of 50000 Quaoar

object named as

Q1R

Q2R

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The two rings of (50000) Quaoar

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/second-ring-around-quaoar-puzzles-astronomers/

different from

quasar

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Commons gallery

50000 Quaoar

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Commons category

50000 Quaoar

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topic's main category

Category:50000 Quaoar

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Identifiers

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28 October 2013

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID

7031623

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Golden ID

50000_Quaoar-JBEJGE

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Google News topics ID

CAAqIQgKIhtDQkFTRGdvSUwyMHZNSEJzZURRU0FtVnVLQUFQAQ

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Interlingual Index ID

i86028

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