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Hyperion

In Greek mythology, the father of the sun god Helios. Hyperion was one of the Titans.

Hyperion

One of the smaller moons of Saturn, discovered in 1848. An irregular-shaped lump measuring 360 × 280 × 225 km/224 × 174 × 140 mi, it orbits Saturn at an average distance of 1,480,000 km/920,000 mi with a period (time taken to circle the planet) of 21.3 days. Hyperion is tumbling chaotically in its orbit, with rotation periods varying from hours to weeks, due to the gravitational influence of Saturn's largest moon, Titan.



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But afterwards she lay with Heaven and bare deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
And, true enough, I learned presently that the mate of the Hyperion had "taken down" his name for quarter- master.
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Automedon, whip in hand, sprang up behind the horses, and after him Achilles mounted in full armour, resplendent as the sun-god Hyperion.
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