Iapetus
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Iapetus may mean:
  • Iapetus (mythology)
    Iapetus (mythology)
    In Greek mythology, Iapetus , also Iapetos or Japetus , was a Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia, and father of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius and through Prometheus, Epimetheus and Atlas an ancestor of the human race...

    , a Titan in Greek mythology
  • Iapetus (moon)
    Iapetus (moon)
    Iapetus ), occasionally Japetus , is the third-largest moon of Saturn, and eleventh in the Solar System. It was discovered by Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1671...

    , one of the planet Saturn's moons
  • Iapetus Ocean
    Iapetus Ocean
    The Iapetus Ocean was an ocean that existed in the Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic eras of the geologic timescale . The Iapetus Ocean was situated in the southern hemisphere, between the paleocontinents of Laurentia, Baltica and Avalonia...

    , an ancient ocean between Laurentia and Baltica
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