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IAPETUS

Iapetus is the eighth satellite of Saturn. It has a period of seventy-nine days, and an orbital radius of 2, 225, 000 miles. Like the earth's moon, it always turns the same face towards its primary.
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IAPETUS

In Greek mythology, Iapetus was one of the Titans. He was a son of Uranus and Gaea, and brother of Cronos, Oceanus, Hyperion &c. He was the father of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Moenoetius. After the war of the Titans against the gods he was imprisoned by Zeus in Tartarus
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IAPETUS OCEAN

The Iapetus Ocean or Pro-Atlantic Sea was an ocean that existed in early Paleozoic times between the continent that was to become Europe and the continent which was to become North America. The continents moved together in the late Paleozoic, obliterating the ocean. When they moved apart once more, they formed the present day Atlantic Ocean.
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