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| has gloss | eng: Weywot, officially (50000) Quaoar I Weywot, is the only known moon of the trans-Neptunian object Quaoar.Its discovery was reported in IAUC 8812 on 22 February 2007. The orbit of this satellite has yet to be determined. The satellite was found at 0.35 arcsec from Quaoar with an apparent magnitude difference of 5.6. Assuming an albedo similar to that of the primary the magnitude suggests a diameter of 95 ± 24 km. Brown believes it is likely to be a collisional fragment of Quaoar, which he speculates lost much of its ice mantle in the process. |
| lexicalization | eng: Weywot |
| instance of | (noun) (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction major planet, planet |
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