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Iapetus

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

How To Use Iapetus In A Sentence

  • `One of them, Iapetus, is black on one side and white on the other: okay, let's give Jupiter a whirl. RESCUING ROSE
  • By the Early Devonian the Iapetus Ocean had closed and was replaced in northern Britain by an essentially transtensional regime with sinistral shearing, and accompanied by major igneous activity.
  • If the short-lived moonlet emerged from a debris disk, as Earth's moon did, the moonlet could have forced leftover debris onto Iapetus to form the walnut ridge.
  • Yea, though Iapetus walk through the valorization of the shagbark of deathwatch 23rd Psaltery
  • Heavily cratered terrain is the most abundant geologic unit; but one should note that there are no old, large impact basins like the ones on Rhea, Iapetus, or Callisto.
  • The mountainous ridge that circles the equator on the Saturnian moon Iapetus is both weird and spectacular.
  • It is composited of three views captured through ultraviolet, green, and infrared filters to bring out compositional variations across the sunlit hemisphere of Iapetus.
  • In the 17th century, the astronomer Giovanni Cassini noticed Iapetus had one dark side and one lighter side, but had no idea why.
  • One of the initial consequences of the shrinking of Iapetus was a gradual decline in the provinciality of fossils.
  • If the short-lived moonlet emerged from a debris disk, as Earth's moon did, the moonlet could have forced leftover debris onto Iapetus to form the walnut ridge.
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