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Quaoar
Dwarf planet · Ringed dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt
About Quaoar
On 2026-01-01, the date the map shows, Quaoar was 42.6 AU from the Sun; sunlight takes 5.91 hours to reach it.
It goes round the Sun once every 283.4 years, at an average distance of 43.148 AU.
It is about 1,110 km across.
The map lists it as a dwarf planet and shows it in the Solar System part of the map, drawn on the plane of Earth’s orbit (the ecliptic).
Key numbers
| Semi-major axis | 43.148 AU |
|---|---|
| Orbital period | 283.4 years |
| Eccentricity | 0.0357 |
| Inclination | 7.99° |
| Radius | 555.0 km |
| Distance from the Sun | 42.6 AU |
Where it is
Its place in the universe, from the inside out: Solar System › Orion–Cygnus Arm (Local Arm) › Milky Way › Local Group › Virgo Supercluster › Laniakea Supercluster › Observable universe.
Zoom out to see it in context: Neptune and the Kuiper belt, a view about 110 AU across.
From Wikipedia
Quaoar is a ringed dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a band of icy planetesimals beyond Neptune. It has a slightly ellipsoidal shape with an average diameter of 1,100 km (680 mi), about half the size of the dwarf planet Pluto.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Quaoar, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.