Weywot was found at 0.35 arcsec from Quaoar with an apparent magnitude difference of 5.6.
== Odkritje in imenovanje ==Odkrila sta ga 4. junija 2002 Chad Trujillo in Michael Brown na Tehnološkem institutu Kalifornije(Caltech), na slikah, ki so bile posnete na Observatoriju Palomar.