Iapetus
/ʌɪˈapɪtəs
/Astronomy
A satellite of Saturn, the seventeenth closest to the planet, having one bright icy side and one very dark side, discovered by Cassini in 1671 (diameter 1,440 km).
Origin
Named after a Titan of Greek mythology, son of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaia (Earth).
- intransigency
- intransigent
- intransigently
- intransitive
- intransitively
- intransitivity
- intraoperative
- intrapersonal
- intrapreneur
- intraspecific
- intrathecal
- intrathecally
- intrauterine
- intrauterine device
- intravascular
- intravascularly
- intravenous
- intravenously
- in tray
- intrazonal
- intrepid
- intrepidity
- intrepidly
- intricacy
- intricate