Talk:Mimas (moon)
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The article stated:
- In Arthur C. Clarke's 2001, Herschel is the site of the monolith that transforms David Bowman.
This seems incorrect: 2001 was written in the 60s, Herschel was discovered by Voyager 1. Also, my (rusty) memory says that the monolith was at Iapetus. --- hike395 03:21, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)
English pronunciation pretty universally [MY-muss].
Just wondering.. what would the adjective for Mimas be? The link to Herschel said Mimasian, I thought I heard 'Mimian' used once. Are there even official ones for moons? --Patteroast 21:22, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- A lot of the web sites that have Mimasian seem to have gotten the term from Wikipedia. The Red Dwarf book series uses Mimian. As for what it should be, the -as is a declensional ending, and would normally be dropped. But you'd need to find the form of the Greek accusative or oblique case to know if the root is just mim-, or if there's more to it, like Ionian from Io, or Atlantean from Atlas. (For Venus, you don't just drop the -us: the s becomes r before a vowel, and the root is vener-, as in venereal.) I tried Liddell & Scott's Intermediate Greek Lexicon, but there was no entry for Mimas. A more advanced or complete volume might have it. (The OED does not.) kwami 07:57, 2005 May 27 (UTC)
- Hey, I found it! The unabridged 9th edition of Liddell & Scott gives the genitive as Μῑμάντος mīmántos. Thus the adjectival form of Mimas is Mimantean, completely parallel with Atlas / Atlantean. The Classics reference librarian at UC San Diego agrees this would be the most reasonable English form. By the way, he pronounced it mye-man'-tee-un. kwami 00:15, 2005 May 28 (UTC)
Mimas looks a lot like the first Death Star.
- Thats no moon! (Sorry, someone had to say it)
- I'm half tempted to put that as the caption for the photo.