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Hyperion is an irregularly shaped moon of Saturn that tumbles chaotically through space rather than rotating in a stable, predictable way. Scientists find it noteworthy because its unusual chaotic motion provides a natural laboratory for studying orbital mechanics and the behavior of objects in unstable gravitational environments.
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- Instance of
- moon of Saturn
- Named after
- Hyperion
- Parent body
- Saturn
- Radius
- 135.00
- Mass
- 5.58
- Orbital period
- 21.276
- Image
- Hyperion true.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- William Lassell
- topic's main category
- Category:Hyperion (moon)
- Commons category
- Hyperion
- time of discovery or invention
- 1848-09-16
- albedo
- 0.3
- apparent magnitude
- 14.1
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.1230061
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 1500934
- orbital inclination
- 0.43
- different from
- Hyperion
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