Dwarf-system satellite
Weywot
Quaoar’s moon following a compact, noticeably eccentric orbit.
Weywot gives the Quaoar system an orbital reference beyond the dwarf planet’s ring context. Its path is not treated as a perfect circle, and unresolved orientation remains part of the scientific record.
- Orbit representation
- Representative mean elements
- Surface
- procedural reconstruction
Reference measurements
The numbers that shape this world
- Mean radius
- 85 km
- Mean orbital distance
- 14,500 km
- Orbital period
- 12.438 days
- Eccentricity
- 0.14
- Inclination
- UnresolvedRepresentative parent-equatorial visual plane; source-backed pole unresolved
- Orbit plane
- Representative
System portrait
A moon beside an unusual ring system
Quaoar demonstrates that small outer-system bodies can host both satellites and rings. Weywot’s page isolates the moon’s own measured orbit from the broader system story.
System geometry
Weywot around Quaoar
Weywot orbits at a mean distance of 14,500 km with a period of 12.438 days. Its catalogued eccentricity is 0.14, and the orbital inclination is not asserted relative to Representative parent-equatorial visual plane; source-backed pole unresolved. Missing angular orientation stays explicitly representative.
Representation notes
What Explore is showing
Mean separation, period and eccentricity are representative. Unresolved orientation remains explicit rather than randomized.
Reference-guided visual reconstruction based on cited mission records; no source raster is reproduced.
Provenance