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Hyperion

(hÿ-peer -ee-ŏn) A satellite of Saturn, discovered in 1848. Images taken by Voyager 2 in 1981 showed an elongated irregular body with a ‘chaotic’ spin orientation and rate; this tumbling is due to its irregular shape, its eccentric orbit, and the gravitational effects upon it of Saturn and Titan. Hyperion has a low albedo (0.03) compared with the other icy inner satellites of Saturn, although it is also probably composed largely of ice. The Voyager 2 pictures showed craters with diameters up to 120 km and one long ridge or scarp extending for 300 km; this is named Bond–Lassell in honor of the discoverers of Hyperion, William Cranch Bond, George Philips Bond, and William Lasell. The Cassini–Huygens probe flew by Hyperion in Sept. 2005 at a distance of 500 km. The images it returned reveal a heavily cratered world with a reddish tinge. In the Cassini images Hyperion shows evidence of possible multiple landslides in the past. A vast impact crater 200 km across is surrounded by rays. A mysterious dark material fills many of the craters, See Table 2, backmatter.
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Hyperion

[hī′pir·ē·ən]
(astronomy)
A satellite of Saturn approximately 300 miles (480 kilometers) in diameter.
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Hyperion

one of the Titans; known for his beauty. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 132]

Hyperion

Titan and father of the sun. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmer-man, 132]
See: Sun
Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

Hyperion

(computer)
An MS-DOS personal computer that was manufactured in Kanata (near Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) in the mid-1980s. It received considerable government subsidies and, while it was considered well-designed and manufactured and a real threat to the Compaq Portable, the Ottawa firm that designed it was unable to beat Compaq.
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Hyperion

(Hyperion Solutions Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, www.hyperion.com) The leading provider of analytical application software for management reporting, analysis, modeling and planning. Founded in 1998 from the merger of Hyperion Software and Arbor Software, company products include Hyperion Pillar (budgeting and planning), Hyperion Essbase (OLAP) and Hyperion Enterprise (financial consolidation and reporting). In 2007, Oracle purchased Hyperion to acquire these quality products.
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