Proteus size and scale context

Proteus is Neptune's largest inner moon, a dark irregular body discovered by Voyager 2 in 1989. It keeps a box-like shape near the threshold where gravity would round it out, while its battered dark surface shows no clear sign of geological remodeling. Read its scale context, comparisons, and journey links on the canonical object page.

67P/Churyumov–GerasimenkoComet nucleus·6 km
DeimosSmall irregular moon·12 km
Crab PulsarNeutron star·20 km
ErosS-type near-Earth asteroid·34 km
Cygnus X-1Stellar black hole·120 km
PhoebeCaptured irregular moon·213 km
ProteusDark irregular inner moon·436 km
EnceladusIcy ocean moon·500 km

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