Weywot - Wikipedia
Named after the Tongva sky god and son of Quaoar, Weywot is thought to be a fragment of Quaoar that was ejected into an eccentric orbit around the dwarf planet by a major impact event billions of years ago. The moon is nearly 200 km (120 mi) in diameter and it orbits Quaoar every 12.4 days at an average distance of 13,300 km (8,300 mi).
Weywot - The Solar System Wiki
In Tongva Mythology, Weywot is the moon of Quaoar, the creator of the universe. The name Weywot was chosen by the Tongva people after it's discovery in 2006. The naming of Weywot was officially announced in a Minor Planet Circular notice published on 4 October 2009.
Quaoar - Wikipedia
Quaoar has one known moon, Weywot, which was discovered by Brown in February 2007. [20] . Both objects were named after mythological figures from the Native American Tongva people in Southern California. Quaoar is the Tongva creator deity and Weywot is his son.
Dwarf planet hosts a ring that’s unexpectedly far from the planet
2023年2月8日 · Later observations that tracked Quaoar as it passed in front of a distant star indicated it was accompanied by a small moon named Weywot. Despite their size, a number of moons have now been...
Dwarf planet Quaoar has a ring! - EarthSky
2023年2月10日 · Quaoar is also a dwarf planet. Astronomers discovered it out beyond Neptune’s orbit in 2002. Then, in 2007, they discovered that Quaoar has a moon, which they named Weywot.
Second Ring Around Quaoar Puzzles Astronomers - Sky & Telescope
2023年5月7日 · There’s a second ring around the far-out dwarf planet Quaoar, adding to the mystery of how this world hosts rings at such wide orbits. An artist’s impression shows a single ring around the distant dwarf planet Quaoar. The moon Weywot is shown on the left and the distant Sun on the right.
Weywot | Moon of Dwarf Planet Quaoar | GO ASTRONOMY
Weywot moon. Weywot is the single moon of dwarf planet Quaoar in the Kuiper Belt. Here is the best image of Weywot and Quaoar:
Weywot (moon) - Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Weywot, officially (50000) Quaoar I Weywot, is the only known moon of the trans-Neptunian object Quaoar. Its discovery by Michael E. Brown was reported in IAUC 8812 on 22 February 2007, based on imagery taken on 14 February 2006.
Quaoar Had One ‘Impossible’ Ring, Then Astronomers Found Two
2023年4月27日 · A potential explanation for Quaoar’s distant rings is the presence of a moon, Weywot. The moon may have created gravitational disturbances that prevented the ring’s particles from accreting...
Quaoar: A rock in the Kuiper Belt | The Planetary Society
2010年4月1日 · In their seven sets of observations, they managed to find Weywot five times, but in two sets, they couldn't see the faint moon, which probably means that it was too close to Quaoar for the WFPC2 pictures to be able to resolve it as a separate object.
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