SpazeDwarf planet, Kuiper belt
Quaoar
Has a ring far outside where rings should be able to exist, which puzzled astronomers when it was found in 2023.
- Size
- 1,110 km
- Orbit
- 283.9 years
- Distance from Sun
- 41.6 to 44.7 AU
- Day
- 8.8 hours
Can we live on Quaoar?
Air: none to speak of. You’d live in sealed, pressurised habitats.
Ground: Crystalline water ice, methane and ethane.
Atmosphere
- None to speak of
Measured by JWST