Talk:Puck (moon)
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Is it named specifically after Puck (mythology) or Puck (Shakespeare)? -- Tarquin
- Puck of mythology and Puck of Shakespeare are the same, "an evil, or malicious spirit or demon" says the OED. According to Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Shakes toned him down a bit, but didn't demythologize him. In Midsummer Night's Dream he is described as "rough, knurly limbed, faun-faced, and shock-pated, a very Shetlander among the gossamer-winged fairies" Ortolan88
Whichever, I thought it might be nice to mention that in this article. -- Tarquin
In the table wrriten "Divcovered in: 1985" and in the article "It was discovered by Voyager 2 in 1986".
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- It was definitely Shakespeare because all the moons of Uranus are named after characters in Shakespeare or Pope. The Singing Badger 22:30, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Adjectival form, anyone? The only thing I can find in English is 'Puckish', which isn't exactly appropriate for our purposes (the Puckish surface??). The original word is Puca, if that helps, and it is still pronounced pook in some areas. kwami 2005 June 30 07:13 (UTC)
[edit] Irregular or oblate spheroid?
I see that many websites say that Puck is irregular, but the map of Puck makes it look more like an oblate spheroid to me. Does anyone agree with me? Kamope 01:10, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
- It happens to have approximately similar dimensions in orthogonal directions, but is much too small to have collapsed to an equlibrium spheroid. Kind of like in a sack of potatoes, you might get a few which are fairly close to being some kind of spheroid by chance. Deuar 19:03, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] pucks size
puck was the biggest moon discovered by voyager —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 172.206.77.234 (talk)
