Definitions for iapetus
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1. Iapetusnoun

   (Greek mythology) the Titan who was father of Atlas and Epimetheus and Prometheus in ancient mythology

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1. Iapetusnoun

   A Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia, and father of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius.

2. Iapetusnoun

   The third largest moon of Saturn

3. Iapetusnoun

   An ancient ocean which existed between 600 and 400 million years ago.

4. Etymology: Ἰαπετός.

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1. Iapetus

   In Greek mythology, Iapetus (; eye-AP-ih-təs; Ancient Greek: Ἰαπετός, romanized: Iapetós), also Japetus, is a Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia and father of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius. He was also called the father of Buphagus and Anchiale in other sources. Iapetus was linked to Japheth (יֶפֶת) one of the sons of Noah and a progenitor of mankind in biblical accounts. The practice by early historians and biblical scholars of identifying various historical nations and ethnic groups as descendants of Japheth, together with the similarity of their names, led to a fusion of their identities, from the early modern period to the present.

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1. iapetus

   Iapetus is the third-largest natural satellite of Saturn and the 11th-largest in the solar system. It was discovered by Giovanni Cassini in 1671. The moon is known for its two-tone coloration, with one hemisphere being very bright and the other very dark. Its most prominent feature is a huge equatorial ridge. In the realm of myth, Iapetus was also a Titan in Greek mythology, the son of Uranus and Gaia, and father of Atlas and Prometheus.

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1. Iapetus

   Iapetus, occasionally Japetus, is the third-largest natural satellite of Saturn, and eleventh-largest in the Solar System. Compared to Earth's moon, its radius is about 42% and its density is about 32.5% resulting in a mass of about 2.5% of Earth's moon. Iapetus is best known for its dramatic 'two-tone' coloration, but discoveries by the Cassini mission in 2007 have revealed several other unusual physical characteristics, such as an equatorial ridge that runs about halfway around the moon.

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   The numerical value of iapetus in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of iapetus in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of iapetus in a Sentence

1. Matija Cuk:

   But that fact allows us to use computer simulations to tease out the history of Saturn’s inner moons, doing so, we find that they were most likely born during the most recent 2 percent of the planet’s history. Related : Saturn's largest moon Titan is bursting with color Researchers had long thought Saturn’s rings were as old as the planet itself. But that thinking changed in 2012, when French astronomers found that tidal effects – the gravitational interaction of the inner moons with fluids deep in Saturn’s interior – are causing them to spiral to larger orbital radii comparatively quickly. The implication, given their present positions, is that these moons, and presumably the rings, are not so old. That still did n’t answer exactly when they were born. Cuk and his team turned to results from NASA’s Cassini mission, which has observed ice geysers on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Assuming that the energy powering these geysers comes directly from tidal interactions and that Enceladus ’ level of geothermal activity is more or less constant, then the tides within Saturn are quite strong. According to the team’s analysis, these would move the satellite by the small amount indicated by the simulations in only about 100 million years. Related : Cassini probe takes' cosmic bulls-eye' of Saturn moons Enceladus, Tethys This would date the formation of the major moons of Saturn, with the exception of more distant Titan and Iapetus, to the relatively recent Cretaceous Period, the era of the dinosaurs.

2. Ryan Cloutier:

   Ultimately, we found that Jupiter is capable of ejecting the fifth giant planet while retaining a moon with the orbit of Callisto, on the other hand, it would have been very difficult for Saturn to do so because Iapetus would have been excessively unsettled, resulting in an orbit that is difficult to reconcile with its current trajectory.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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