Quaoar
/ˈkwouˌär
/An asteroid, roughly the size of Pluto, discovered in 2002. Its orbit is in the Kuiper belt.The discovery of Quaoar, a magnitude 18.5 object located in the constellation Ophiuchus, was announced on October 7, 2002, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society....
- Our data show that the ice on Quaoar has at some time been raised in temperature above 110 K, the critical temperature for transformation from amorphous to crystalline.
- Western astrologers around the world will be taking careful note of Quaoar as Western astrology is the only astrological system in the world which accepts new planetary bodies and reformulates itself to take into account the meanings and insight a new planet brings.
Origin
From the name of a Native American god associated with creation.