Are there any dwarf planets that start with q?

Answer 1

The trans-Neptunian planetoid named "50000 Quaoar" was discovered in 2002 by two of the Palomar Observatory team members that found "Eris" three years later, in 2005. It is a dwarf planet 'candidate' about half the size of Pluto, and is sometimes slightly closer to the Sun than Pluto (mean distance 6.5 billion kilometers or 43 AU). It is referred to as a "cubewano" (classical Kuiper Belt Object) as opposed to a "plutino" which like Pluto would be influenced by the gravity of Neptune. Quaoar has one satellite, tentatively named Weywot. Both names are from the mythology of the Tongva, an Amerindian group native to Southern California.