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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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