Weywot

E381545

Weywot is a small natural satellite orbiting the Kuiper Belt dwarf planet candidate Quaoar.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Weywot canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf astronomical object
natural satellite
albedo low
belongsToCategory minor natural satellites
natural satellites in the Solar System
satellites of trans-Neptunian objects
celestialHierarchy satellite of a Kuiper Belt object
discoveredBy C. Trujillo
David L. Rabinowitz
surface form: M. Rabinowitz

Michael E. Brown
T.-A. Suer
surface form: T. A. Suer
discoveryMethod imaging
discoverySite Palomar Observatory
discoveryStatus confirmed
discoveryYear 2006
distanceFromSun approximately 43 AU (via Quaoar)
gravitationallyBoundTo Quaoar
hasMythologicalThemeSharedWith Quaoar
hasNo known atmosphere
hasUncertainParameters mass
orbital eccentricity
size
isOuterSolarSystemObject true
locatedIn Kuiper Belt
mass approximately 1.6×10^18 kg
meanDiameter approximately 80 km
namedAfter Tongva mythology
Weywot (Tongva sky god)
namingLanguage Tongva
observedBy Hubble Space Telescope
ground-based telescopes with adaptive optics
orbitalEccentricity approximately 0.13–0.16
high
orbitalPeriod approximately 12.4 days
orbits Quaoar
partOf Quaoar
surface form: Quaoar system
primaryBody Quaoar
primaryBodyType dwarf planet candidate
radius approximately 40 km
rotation likely tidally locked to Quaoar
semiMajorAxis approximately 1.45×10^4 km
spectralType similar to Quaoar
surfaceComposition likely icy and rocky
systemCenterOfMassWith Quaoar
systemUsedToDetermineMassOf Quaoar

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Quaoar hasSatellite Weywot
Quaoar hasMoon Weywot