About Quaoar
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Quaoar is a Kuiper Belt object, found in June 2002 by Chad Trujillo and Mike Brown at Caltech in Pasadena. It's the largest Kuiper Belt object currently known, half the diameter of Pluto (about 1/8 the volume), and 1.6 billion kilometers (1 billion miles) further away than Pluto.
Source: http://www.chadtrujillo.com/quaoar/
The Tongva people (sometimes called the San Gabrielino Native Americans) inhabited the Los Angeles area before the arrival of the Spanish and other European people. The name "Quaoar" (pronounced kwah-o-wahr) comes from their creation mythology. In the words of Mark Acuña, Tongva scholar, dancer and tribal elder:

Quaoar, their only god who came down from heaven and, after reducing chaos to order, out the world on the back of seven giants, He then created the lower animals, and then mankind. The force who sings and dances the high ones (the Sky Father, the Earth Mother, Grandfather Sun) into existence.
— Ancient creation myth of the Tongva Indians of Los Angeles County, California.


