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	50000 Quaoar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Quaoar is estimated to have a diameter of about 1,200 kilometres, which at the time of discovery made it the largest object found in the solar system since Pluto and, indeed, then the largest known minor planet (it was later supplanted by 90377 Sedna).
		The IAU approved the name Quaoar, making it the official name; it also has the systematic name 2002 LM The discovery weakens Pluto's case to be classed as a planet, since astronomers expect that there may be as many as a dozen Kuiper Belt objects the size of Quaoar.
		Quaoar is believed to be a mixture of rock and ice, like other Kuiper Belt Objects; however its extremely low albedo (estimated at 0.1) indicates that the ice has disappeared from its outer layers.
	www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Quaoar (638 words)

	CHRISTIAN BORUP ASTROLOGY.DK > EPHEMERIS > QUAOAR > MENU
		Quaoar er - målt i forhold til de hidtil kendte planeter - umådelig lille og befinder sig umådeligt langt væk.
		Quaoar bevæger sig i et kredsløb 1,6 milliarder kilometer længere ude end Pluto og 10,8 milliarder kilometer fra Jorden.
		Quaoar's "icy dwarf" cousin, Pluto, was discovered in 1930 in the course of a 15-year search for trans-Neptunian planets.
	www.astrology.dk /12hus/ephemeris/quaoar (562 words)

	Quaoar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Quaoar ("kwah-oh-ahr", /kwA o Ar/) is a Trans-Neptunian object circling the Sun in the Kuiper belt, discovered in 2002 by astronomers Chad Trujillo and Mike Brown at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.
		Quaoar is estimated to have a diameter of about 1,280 kilometres, which would make it the largest Solar System object discovered since Pluto and, indeed, the largest known minor planet.
		Quaoar belongs to the Kuiper belt, a class of comet like icy objects orbitting beyond Neptune, pristine remnants from the solar nebula with much knowledge to yield.
	www.theezine.net /q/quaoar.html (325 words)

	Caltech Press Release, 10/7/2002, Dr. Michael Brown
		Quaoar is located about 4 billion miles from Earth in a region beyond the orbit of Pluto known as the Kuiper belt.
		Quaoar, on the other hand, never approaches the sun in its circular orbit, which means that the volatile gases never are excited enough to kick up a highly reflective atmosphere.
		Quaoar's orbital inclination of 7.9 degrees is not particularly surprising, Brown says, because the Kuiper belt is turning out to be wider than originally expected.
	pr.caltech.edu /media/Press_Releases/PR12296.html (1167 words)

	Space Today Online -- Solar System Kuiper Belt mystery objects - tenth planet
		Quaoar and the other large planetoids dwell in the Kuiper Belt, an icy debris field of comet-like bodies extending billions of miles beyond the orbit of the distant planet Neptune.
		Quaoar is less than 1/100,000 the brightness of the faintest star seen by the human eye.
		While Quaoar is beyond the farthest known planets, some 95 percent of all known minor planets are closer in an orbit known as the Asteroid Belt, which lies between the orbits of the major planets Mars and Jupiter.
	www.spacetoday.org /SolSys/KuiperBelt/Quaoar.html (3912 words)

	Quaoar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Quaoar, as an official name, will have to await approval from the International Astronomical Union.
		The detection of crystalline ice suggests that Quaoar is or was being heated by something other than the Sun, as it could only be warmed to a maximum of -223°C (50 K) by the radiation.
		Quaoar's orbit is close to the plane in which most of the other planets orbit, and it`s spin axis is tilted about 7.9% compared to the plane of its orbit.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /blobrana/database/quaoar.htm (629 words)

	New Planet-Shaped Body Found in Our Solar System
		"Quaoar is an awesome object that fits well with the existing picture of the Kuiper belt," said Dave Jewitt, a professor at the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu and an expert in the study of Kuiper belt objects.
		Since Quaoar was discovered on June 4, the researchers have measured it with a heat-sensitive telescope at the International Institute for Research in Millimeter Astronomy (IRAM) in France and the Hubble Space Telescope.
		Quaoar, which was named after the creation force of the Tongva tribe who were the original inhabitants of the Los Angeles basin, is located about 4 billion miles (6.5 billion kilometers) from Earth in a region beyond the orbit of Pluto known as the Kuiper belt.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2002/10/1003_021007_quaoar.html (840 words)

	More Information on the Quaoar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although Quaoar was relatively bright (by the feeble standards of such distant objects) its disk was too small for the Palomar telescope to resolve.
		Quaoar is greater in volume than all known asteroids combined.
		Quaoar is the farthest object in the solar system ever to be resolved by a telescope.
	www.il-st-acad-sci.org /planets/quaoar2.html (329 words)

	SPACE.com -- Discovery: Largest Solar System Object Since Pluto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The icy Kuiper belt object 2002 LM60, was dubbed Quaoar (pronounced kwa-whar) by its discoverers.
		Quaoar also appears to be larger than Pluto's moon, Charon, which is 745 miles (1,200 kilometers) in diameter.
		Quaoar's orbit is close to the plane in which most of the other planets orbit, the researchers say.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/quaoar_discovery_021007.html (1553 words)

	Quaoar
		Quaoar is about 4 billion miles away from Earth, well over a billion miles farther away than Pluto.
		Although smaller than Pluto, Quaoar is greater in volume than all the asteroids combined (though probably only one-third the mass of the asteroid belt, because it's icy rather than rocky).
		Quaoar's composition is theorized to be largely ices mixed with rock, not unlike that of a comet, though 100 million times greater in volume.
	www.solarviews.com /eng/quaoar.htm (660 words)

	The Lunar Planner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Quaoar was discovered by Mike Brown, a professor of planetary science at the California Institute of Technology and colleague Chad Trujillo in a digital image taken June 4, 2002, 05:41:40 UT from the Palomar Observatory 48-inch Oschin telescope in California.
		Quaoar's orbit is remarkably circular compared to Pluto's, which is highly elliptical (Because of Pluto's elliptical orbit, Pluto is actually closer to the sun than Neptune is during a small part of each orbit.) Quaoar's orbit is tilted 7.9 degrees to the ecliptic plane, whereas Pluto's orbit is tilted by 17 degrees.
		Quaoar's near circular orbit and mild orbital inclination of 8° (as compared to Pluto's highly elliptical orbit and severing 17° inclination) indicates a gentle and harmonious nature, perhaps one inspiring the need to bring into a centered harmony and balance that which is chaotically scattered.
	www.lunarplanner.com /asteroids.html (6371 words)

	Maya del Mar's Daykeeper Journal: Alex Miller-Mignone
		Quaoar was discovered 4 June 2002, and the prominence of cloning issues throughout the year is undeniable, with much Congressional debate over anti-cloning legislation, the unsubstantiated allegation of the birth of the first cloned human baby by Clonaid in December 2002, and the demise of the first cloned sheep, Dolly, in February of 2003.
		Quaoar is inconjunct Jupiter retrograde at 11 Cancer, opposed Saturn retrograde at 9 Gemini, square Mars at 9 Pisces, and semisextile Mercury at 10 Capricorn.
		Quaoar's position for the Roe V. Wade decision is at 5 Scorpio, exactly conjunct a manifestation-producing Quasar, from where it neatly bisects the Neptune/Pluto sextile, being semisextile to both Neptune at 6 Sagittarius and Pluto at 4 Libra.
	www.daykeeperjournal.com /aarch03/0308aug/amm-quaoar.shtml (1949 words)

	Quaoar mythology and astrological meaning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Quaoar is the name given to the Creator God, and the various other deities in the Tongva myth perform the work of the sub-gods/goddesses.
		Quaoar is that glorious metaphysical point/process wherein the All creates chaos for the purpose of shaping it into material form.
		Quaoar in my natal chart is in Libra conjuncting Neptune in the 8th house, both of which sextile my natal Saturn in Leo in the 7th house.
	www.karmastrology.com /qmyth.shtml (2354 words)

	Volcanoes on Quaoar
		Named after an American Indian god, Quaoar, the planetoid should be far colder based on its distance from the sun than it appears to be.
		The surface temperature of Quaoar is only 50 K (-220 C) and, at these low temperatures, the thermodynamically preferred form of ice is amorphous (meaning "structureless": the water molecules freeze where they stick in a jumbled pattern).
		The extra wrinkle is that crystalline ice, however it came to be emplaced on the surface of Quaoar, is itself unstable.
	www.meta-religion.com /Astronomy/Other_subjects/volcanoes_on_qoaoar.htm (840 words)

	[FPSPACE] Look out Pluto, here's Quaoar!
		Quaoar is too new to have been officially named by the International Astronomical Union, but its discoverers, Brown and postdoctoral student Chadwick Trujillo, proposed naming it after a creation god of the Native American Tongva tribe, the original inhabitants of the Los Angeles basin.
		Quaoar, however, orbits in a near circle, never approaching the sun and undergoing the slight heating that Pluto periodically experiences.
		Quaoar is believed to be rotating and it reflects about 10 percent of the light that falls on it.
	www.friends-partners.org /pipermail/fpspace/2002-October/005916.html (746 words)

	Quaoar, an Icy World Far Beyond Pluto
		Quaoar (pronounced kwa-whar) is about half the size of Pluto.
		Like Pluto, Quaoar dwells in the Kuiper belt, an icy debris field of comet-like bodies extending 7 billion miles beyond Neptune's orbit.
		Quaoar is about 4 billion miles (6.5 billion kilometers) from Earth, more than 1 billion miles farther than Pluto.
	www.solarviews.com /cap/comet/quaoar1.htm (300 words)

	Quaoar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Astronomers consider Quaoar to be a "Kuiper Belt object" rather than a planet, and they say its discovery may weaken the case for considering Pluto a planet.
		Quaoar spends most of its time beyond Pluto's orbit, among thousands of other icy objects in a zone on the fringe of our solar system known as the Kuiper Belt.
		Quaoar and Pluto are coincidentally in the same region of sky as seen from Earth now.
	julieandpeter.com /quaoar/quaoar.htm (1363 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Large world found beyond Pluto
		Quaoar, as it has been dubbed, is about 1,280 kilometres across (800 miles) and is the biggest find in the Solar System since Pluto itself 72 years ago.
		Images of Quaoar had been captured as long ago as 1982, but it was not recognised as a new world.
		Quaoar lies in the so-called Kuiper Belt, a swarm of objects made of ice and rock that orbit the Sun beyond Neptune.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/2306945.stm (573 words)

	quaoar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Quaoar is about 1250km in diameter, about the size of Pluto's moon, Charon.
		Quaoar was named for the god of creation of the Tongva people.
		Quaoar is probably made up of rock and ice because of measurements made at the Keck Telescope.
	www.promotega.org /fld30032/quaoar.html (148 words)

	Quaoar
		It is a plum for students of the solar system: with a distance of 4 billion miles from Earth, Quaoar is the largest solar system object to be measured since Pluto was discovered in the 1930s and the the most distant to be resolved by a telescope.
		Quaoar is an inhabitant of the Kuiper Belt debris zone, solar system objects made of ice and rock, lying beyond Neptune.
		Quaoar lies in the Kuiper Belt, a swarm of objects made of ice and rock that orbit the sun beyond Neptune.
	www.craigmont.org /quaoar.htm (634 words)

	Quaoar - StarIQ.com
		The fact of the matter remains that Quaoar, as they choose to call this Trans-Neptunian Object, is the largest known of the Kuiper Belt Objects circling our Sun, just beyond Pluto.
		Astronomers now contend that the discovery of Quaoar and its diameter might work to establish another push for the downgrading of Pluto from planet status—obviously suggested by one who has never consciously experienced a Pluto transit.
		Quaoar received its preliminary name from one of the discovering astronomers.
	www.stariq.com /Main/Articles/P0003940.HTM (720 words)

	Science News: Finding a Kuiper belt king. (Hefty Discovery). @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brown and Trujillo found Quaoar on an image taken June 4 with a 48-inch telescope at Palomar Observatory near Escondido, Calif. Looking through archival images recorded at Palomar, the scientists also identified Quaoar in images from 1982, 1996, 2000, and 2001.
		Quaoar orbits the sun every 288 years in a near-perfect circle inclined by 7.9 degrees relative to the plane in which every planet but Pluto travels.
		Quaoar, however, was observed with both Hubble and a submillimeter telescope.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:93456978&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (515 words)

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