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Hyperion

A very irregular shaped moon made of ice with a lot of impact craters. It totters on its way around Saturn, changing its rotation direction and axis from time to time. This is due to common approaches to Titan.

Distance to Saturn: 1 481 010 km
Mass: 5.69 * 1018 kg
Diameter: 292 km
Orbit period: 21.28 days

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