Limits of Standard Tidal Models at Quaoar: Matching Weywot's Orbit, Missing the Spin

Zsolt Regaly, Viktoria Frohlich, Csaba Kiss

Weywot, Quaoar's small satellite, follows a nearly circular orbit at a distance of 12.9 times Quaoar's diameter and coexists with a compact ring system. Nevertheless, Quaoar's flat…