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About "Quaoar From Weywot"

This animation shows Quaoar and its rings seen from the surface of its moon, Weywot. Quaoar is a dwarf planet located 6.5 billion kilometres from Earth in the Kuiper Belt. Quaoar's rings are composed of debris and were discovered through a series of observations between 2018 and 2021. The thicker of the two rings, the outermost one, is very irregular — much thicker in some parts, and also invisible in others. Quaoar is about 1100 km in diameter and slightly ellipsoidal in shape. Waywot orbits at a distance of 13,000 km.

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Title: Quaoar From Weywot

Category: Animations, Space

Date: January 2026

Medium: Blender

Keywords: astronomy Blender craters distant dwarf planet icy Kuiper belt landscape moon Quaoar rings rocky satellite Solar System TNO trans-Neptunian object Weywot

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