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Hyperion vs. Saturn — What's the Difference?

Hyperion vs. Saturn — What's the Difference?

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Hyperion

Greek Mythology A Titan, the son of Gaea and Uranus and the father of Helios.

Saturn

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius of about nine and a half times that of Earth.

Hyperion

A satellite of Saturn.

Saturn

Roman Mythology The god of agriculture.

Hyperion

The god of the sun; in the later mythology identified with Apollo, and distinguished for his beauty.
So excellent a king; that was, to this,Hyperion to a satyr.
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Saturn

The sixth planet from the sun and the second largest in the solar system, having a sidereal period of revolution about the sun of 29.5 years at a mean distance of about 1.43 billion kilometers (891 million miles), a mean diameter of approximately 121,000 kilometers (75,000 miles), and a mass 96 times that of Earth.

Hyperion

(Greek mythology) a Titan who was the son of Gaea and Uranus and the father of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology

Saturn

The Southeast Asian butterfly Zeuxidia amethystus, family Nymphalidae.

Saturn

One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Cœlus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), and the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time.

Saturn

One of the planets of the solar system, next in magnitude to Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its diameter is seventy thousand miles, its mean distance from the sun nearly eight hundred and eighty millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a remarkable system of rings, and has eight satellites.

Saturn

The metal lead.

Saturn

A giant planet which is surrounded by three planar concentric rings of ice particles; 6th planet from the sun

Saturn

(Roman mythology) god of agriculture and vegetation; counterpart of Greek Cronus;
Saturday is Saturn's Day

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