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  1. Iapetus
    a Titan, son of Gaia and Uranus; father of Atlas, Epimetheus, and Prometheus by his sister Clymene, though other myths maintain that he married Asia or Asopis; helped Zeus overthrow Cronus.
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  2. Iapetus
    [n] - (Greek mythology) the Titan who was father of Atlas and Epimetheus and Prometheus in ancient mythology
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  3. Iapetus
    Satellite of the planet Saturn. See TABLE 8. SATURN - SATELLITE DATA
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  4. Iapetus
    outermost of Saturn`s major regular moons, extraordinary because of its great contrast in surface brightness. It was discovered by the Italian-born ... [3 related articles]
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  5. Iapetus
    [moon] Iapetus (s;Ιαπετός), occasionally Japetus (s), is the third-largest moon of Saturn, and eleventh in the Solar System. It was discovered by Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1671. Iapetus is best known for its dramatic `two-tone` coloration, but recent discoveries by the Cassini miss...
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  6. Iapetus
    [mythology] In Greek mythology, Iapetus (s), also Iapetos or Japetus (Ἰαπετός), was a Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia, and father (by an Oceanid named Clymene or Asia) of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius and through Prometheus, Epimetheus and Atlas an ancestor of the hu...
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  7. Iapetus
    Iapetus from Cassini, 2004. This mosaic image was obtained with the spacecraft's narrow angle camera on Dec. 31, 2004, at a distance of about 172,400 km (107,124 miles) from the moon and at a Sun-Iapetus-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 50 degrees. The image scale is 1 km (0.6 miles) per pixel. The im...
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  8. Iapetus
    Iapetus (īăp'itus) , in astronomy, one of the named moons, or natural satellites, of Saturn. Also known as Saturn VIII (or S8), Iapetus is 907 mi (1460 km) in diameter, orbits Saturn at a mean distance of 2,212,885 mi (3,561,300 km), and has equal orbital and rotational periods of 79...
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  9. Iapetus
    Iapetus, in Greek mythology, a Titan. By the nymph Clymene he fathered Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius.
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  10. Iapetus
    Iapetus is the eighth satellite of Saturn. It has a period of seventy-nine days, and an orbital radius of 2, 225, 000 miles. Like the earth's moon, it always turns the same face towards its primary.
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  11. Iapetus
    In Greek mythology, Iapetus was one of the Titans. He was a son of Uranus and Gaea, and brother of Cronos, Oceanus, Hyperion &c. He was the father of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Moenoetius. After the war of the Titans against the gods he was imprisoned by Zeus in Tartarus
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  12. iapetus
    1) Iapetus 2) Moon of saturn 3) Titan
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