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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.
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Source http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2002/17/image/a/
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NASA and G. Bacon (STScI)

  • Science Credit: NASA and M. Brown (Caltech)

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Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
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20:30, 2 September 2005Thumbnail for version as of 20:30, 2 September 2005347 × 260 (77 KB)Edusilvaquaoar -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.
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