File:Orbit of Quaoar.jpg

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Image title	NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has measured the largest object discovered in the solar system since the discovery of Pluto 72 years ago. Approximately half the size of Pluto, the icy world is called "Quaoar" (pronounced kwa-whar). Quaoar is about 4 billion miles away, more than a billion miles farther than Pluto. Like Pluto, Quaoar dwells in the Kuiper belt, an icy belt of comet-like bodies extending 7 billion miles beyond Neptune's orbit.
Source	ESA/Hubble
Credit/Provider	NASA/ESA and A. Feild (STScI)
Short title	Quaoar's orbit in the Solar System
Usage terms	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Date and time of data generation	06:00, 7 October 2002
Keywords	Kuiper Belt Quaoar Solar System
Contact information	http://www.spacetelescope.org/ Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 Garching bei München, , D-85748 Germany
IIM version	4