Talk:Proteus (moon)
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The OED has two adjectival forms, an obsolete 'Proteusian' (proe-tew'-zhun?), and 'Protean' (proe'-tee-un, proe-tee'-un). However, since Protean has strong connotation of its own (variability of form, playing more than one role, etc.), maybe it would be better to use Proteusian as the literal adjectival form for the moon? However, the form expected from the Greek is the current Protean. kwami 2005 June 30 08:14 (UTC)
Needs to be templated. --Eric Forste 7 July 2005 22:19 (UTC)
[edit] Largest non-spherical moon??
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>It is the largest known non-spherical moon in the solar system.
But Iapetus (moon) is bigger and also is a non-spherical moon (although apparently closer to spherical shape than Proteus). Should the above sentence thus be deleted?--Roentgenium111 (talk) 19:45, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
