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Encyclopedia > Hyperion

Origin

In the Homers Iliad and Odyssey the sun god is called Helios Hyperion, Sun High-one. But in the Odyssey, Hesiods Theogony and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter the sun is once in each work called Hyperonides son of Hyperion and Hesiod certainly imagines Hyperion as a separate... In Greek mythology, the Titans (Greek Τιταν, plural Τιτανες) are among a series of gods, some of whom opposed Zeus and the Olympian gods in their ascent to power. ... Greek mythology comprises the collected narratives of Greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. ...

Astronomy

Hyperion (hye-peer-ee-un, Greek ‘Υπερίων) is a moon of Saturn discovered by William Cranch Bond, George Phillips Bond and William Lassell in 1848. ... Moons of solar system scaled to Earths Moon The common noun moon (not capitalized) is used to mean any natural satellite of the other planets. ... Atmospheric characteristics Atmospheric pressure 140 kPa Hydrogen >93% Helium >5% Methane 0. ...

Culture

Hyperion is an uncompleted epic poem by 19th-century English Romantic poet John Keats. ... Poetry (ancient Greek: poieo = create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ... John Keats John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821) was one of the principal poets in the English Romantic movement. ... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet who wrote many poems that are still famous today, including The Song of Hiawatha and Evangeline. ... DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... Friedrich Hölderlin Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (March 20, 1770 – June 6, 1843) was a major German lyric poet. ... Hyperion The Hyperion Cantos is a tetralogy of novels by Dan Simmons. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948 in Peoria, Illinois) is an author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel Hyperion and its sequel The Fall of Hyperion. ... Hyperion Hyperion (book) redirects here. ... The Hyperion class Heavy Cruiser is a fictional starship in the Babylon 5 universe. ... A heavy cruiser is a type of large warship which originated with the British Hawkins class during World War I. They entered service after the war. ... The Babylon 5 Station Babylon 5 is an epic science fiction television series created, produced, and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. ... Hyperion is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe, and a member of the Squadron Supreme. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Superman (left) and Batman, two of the most recognizable and influential superheroes. ... Marvel Comics NYSE: MVL, (AKA Marvel Entertainment Group, Marvel Characters, Inc. ... The Squadron Supreme is a team of comic book superheroes in the Marvel Comics universe. ... The Hyperion is a battlecruiser in the StarCraft universe, currently commanded by Jim Raynor. ... For the champion New Zealand bred race horse, see Starcraft StarCraft (SC) is a real-time strategy computer game introduced by Blizzard Entertainment in 1998. ... The StarCraft universe is a fictional universe in which the StarCraft series of computer games and books are set. ... MSX is the name of a standard for home computers in the 1980s (see also The Home Computer Era in the History of computing hardware). ... Gradius is a horizontally-scrolling shooter arcade game developed by Konami in 1985. ... Games, like most other forms of media, may be categorized into genres based on gameplay, atmosphere, and various other factors. ... The Hyperion Hotel was home base for Angel in the U.S. television series Angel during the middle seasons of the show. ... In the Television series Angel (a spin-off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer) the title character runs a private investigator firm, Angel Investigations. ... Angel was the highly successful spin-off from the American television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ... A story within a story is a literary device or conceit in which one story is told during the action of another story. ... Gekigangar III is a sub-anime of the anime series Martian Successor Nadesico that plays a critical part in the plot thereof. ... This is part of the Martian Successor Nadesico (see Categories, below) series of articles Martian Successor Nadesico (機動戦艦ナデシコ Kidō Senkan Nadeshiko, 1996) is a science fiction comedy anime TV series, and a subsequent manga series by Kia Asamiya. ... Seifer Almasy is both a playable character and the antagonist in Squaresofts RPG Final Fantasy VIII. Aside from the games main protagonist, Squall Leonhart, Seifer is the only other student at Balamb Garden to wield a gunblade, his particular model being known as the Hyperion. ... Squalls Gunblade, Revolver. ... Final Fantasy VIII is a computer role-playing game created by Square Co. ...

Organizations

Hyperion Solutions Corporation provides business performance management software and business intelligence platform. ... Business performance management (BPM) is a set of processes that help organizations optimize business performance. ... Hyperion Entertainment developes Amiga, Linux and Macintosh games. ... A software developer is an entity, either a company or individual, that creates software. ... In computer science, porting is the adaptation of a piece of software so that it will function in a different computing environment to that for which it was originally written. ... In computing, Amiga is a range of home/personal computers primarily using the Motorola 68000 processor family, whose development started in 1982, initially as a game machine. ... Tux, a cartoon penguin frequently featured sitting, is the official Linux mascot. ... Apple iMac G5 desktop computer Apple PowerBook G4 17 portable computer The Macintosh, or Mac for short, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured and marketed by Apple Computer. ... Hyperion Records is an independent British classical record label, named after Hyperion, one of the Titans of Greek mythology. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, European art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day. ... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... Look up book on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Walt Disney Company (most commonly known as Disney) NYSE: DIS is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ...

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Saturn's Moon Hyperion (1292 words)
Hyperion is redder than Phoebe and closely matches the color of the dark material on Iapetus.
Hyperion is 266 kilometers (165 miles) across, has an irregular shape, and spins in a chaotic rotation.
This image of Hyperion was acquired by the Voyager 2 spacecraft on August 25, 1981.
SunSync (2445 words)
Hyperion will explore terrain while being cognizant of the broader environment: the time, its global position and orientation, the position of the sun, and the available and required energy levels for exploration.
Hyperion is 2 meters long and 2 meters wide and almost 3 meters tall with a near-vertically mounted solar panel of 3.5 square meters.
Hyperion uses a pair of digital cameras to image the terrain in front of it and a laser line scanner to detect close in obstacles.
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