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).
- iron brown
- iron buff
- iron-burnt
- iron cap
- iron carbide
- iron-cased
- iron cement
- iron chamber
- Iron Chink
- Iron City
- ironclad
- ironclad oath
- iron clay
- iron-clenched
- iron cloth
- iron-clothed
- Iron Cross
- Iron Crown
- Iron Curtain
- Iron Curtain country
- iron deficiency
- iron deficiency anaemia
- iron deficiency anemia
- iron-deficient
- irone