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In Greek mythology, Iapetus (/ aɪ ˈ æ p ɪ t ə s /; 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.
Asteroids, Comets & Meteors. Kuiper Belt. Discovery Giovanni Cassini discovered Iapetus on Oct. 25, 1671. However, to astronomers Iapetus appeared only as a dot whose brightness varied from brighter to fainter over the course of an orbit around Saturn.
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Iapetus is an oddly-coloured and shaped moon of Saturn. It is the third-largest moon in the system, and was discovered in 1671 by the astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini.
Iapetus is an elder Titan born from the primordial gods Uranus and Gaia. His parents were some of the first two beings to exist. According to “The Illiad” by Homer, he almost didn’t exist at all. Iapetus was just one of the Titan gods hidden in Tartarus by Uranus.
The Iapetus Ocean ( / aɪˈæpɪtəs /; eye-AP-ih-təs) [1] existed in the late Neoproterozoic and early Paleozoic eras of the geologic timescale (between 600 and 400 million years ago). It lay in the southern hemisphere, between the paleocontinents of Laurentia, Baltica and Avalonia. The ocean disappeared with the Acadian, Caledonian and ...
