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DescriptionQuaoar.jpg	English: This is an artist's impression of the icy Kuiper belt object 2002 LM60, dubbed "Quaoar" by its discoverers. With the help of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have determined that Quaoar (pronounced kwa-whar) is the largest body found in the solar system since the discovery of Pluto 72 years ago. Quaoar is about 800 miles (1300 kilometers) in diameter and is about half the size of Pluto. Like Pluto, Quaoar dwells in the Kuiper belt, an icy debris field of comet-like bodies extending 7 billion miles beyond Neptune's orbit. Quaoar is the farthest object in the solar system ever to be resolved by a telescope. It is about 4 billion miles (6.5 billion kilometers) from Earth, more than 1 billion miles farther than Pluto.
Date	7 October 2002
Source	http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2002/17/image/a/
Author	NASA and G. Bacon (STScI) Science Credit: NASA and M. Brown (Caltech)

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current	03:52, 3 May 2015	2,732 × 2,045 (490 KB)	Jcpag2012	crop
	03:51, 3 May 2015	2,753 × 2,066 (516 KB)	Jcpag2012	Cropped 8 % horizontally and 14 % vertically using CropTool with precise mode.
	03:50, 3 May 2015	3,000 × 2,400 (499 KB)	Jcpag2012	Reverted to version as of 08:15, 27 March 2015
	08:15, 27 March 2015	2,706 × 2,016 (440 KB)	Jcpag2012	crop
	08:15, 27 March 2015	3,000 × 2,400 (499 KB)	Jcpag2012	larger image
	20:30, 2 September 2005	347 × 260 (77 KB)	Edusilva	quaoar -artistic - courtesy of NASA This image was made by G. Bacon (from STScI [1]) in collaboration with NASA and is available from http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2002/17/ the copyright notice there states as follows.