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In the News (Thu 17 Dec 09)

  
  Saturn's Moon Hyperion
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.
www.solarviews.com /eng/hyperion.htm   (1292 words)

  
 SunSync
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.
www.frc.ri.cmu.edu /sunsync/html/Background.htm   (2445 words)

  
 Sirsi Corporation - Products - Hyperion Digital Media Archive
Hyperion provides all types of libraries a way to broaden access to what was once available only in paper form by visiting a library or through the mail.
Hyperion then uses natural language text processing, which is based not on single words, but instead on concepts, to provide results in ranked order for evaluation by the user.
Hyperion is the ideal system for managing and preserving a variety of archival information for all types of libraries in a wide array of formats.
www.sirsi.com /Sirsiproducts/hyperion.html   (728 words)

  
 HYPERION : Greek Titan god of light ; mythology
HYPERION was the Titan god of light, the father of the three shining gods of heaven - Eos the Light of Dawn and Day, Helios the Sun, and Selene the Moon.
Hyperion was one of the four Titan brothers who conspired with Kronos to depose their father Ouranos (Sky).
Hyperion, as a Titan son of Heaven, was probably also viewed as the primal god who first ordered the cycles of sun, moon and dawn, establishing the regular rhythm of days and months.
www.theoi.com /Titan/TitanHyperion.html   (1331 words)

  
 Hyperion
n Greek mythology Hyperion was a Titan, the son of Gaea and Uranus and the father of Helios.
Hyperion is the only known body in the solar system that rotates chaoticly but simulations seem to indicate that other irregular satellites may have done so in the past.
Hyperion is unique in that it is very irregularly shaped, has a highly eccentric orbit, and is near another large moon (Titan).
www.wanderer.org /nineplanets/hyperion.html   (330 words)

  
 Hyperion
In Greek mythology Hyperion was a Titan, the son of Gaea and Uranus and the father of Helios.
But unlike most of Saturn's moons, Hyperion has a low albedo (.2 -.3) indicating that it is covered by at least a thin layer of dark material.
Hyperion's odd rotation probably accounts for the fact that Hyperion's surface is more or less uniform, in contrast to many of Saturn's other moons which have distinctly different leading and trailing hemispheres.
www.nineplanets.org /hyperion.html   (342 words)

  
 Astronomy News
Saturn's chaotically tumbling moon Hyperion was captured by the Cassini spacecraft.
This image of Hyperion was taken on June 11, 2005 and received on Earth June 12, 2005 by the Cassini probe.
Hyperion's unusual dimensions are 164 by 130 by 107 kilometres.
www.activeboard.com /forum.spark?forumID=58381&subForumID=163878&action=viewTopic&commentID=2915300   (865 words)

  
 Hyperion
Hyperion is considered one of the most important thoroughbreds of the Twentieth Century, both as a runner and as a sire.
Hyperion was bred by Lord Derby, who also bred his dam Selene, and granddam, Serenissima.
Hyperion was weaned late and not being of the most robust constitution, was left at Side Hill Stud when the rest of the foal crop were sent off to Knowsley, near Liverpool.
www.tbheritage.com /Portraits/Hyperion.html   (4530 words)

  
 Hyperion Records Home Page
Founded in 1980, Hyperion is an independent British classical label devoted to presenting high-quality recordings of music of all styles and from all periods from the twelfth century to the twentieth.
Hyperion was one of the Titans, and the father of the sun and the moon — and also of the Muses, so we feel we are fulfilling his modern role by giving the art of music to the world.
The repertoire available on Hyperion, and its subsidiary label Helios (Helios, the sun, was the son of Hyperion), ranges over the entire spectrum of music — sacred and secular, choral and solo vocal, orchestral, chamber and instrumental — and much of it is unique to Hyperion.
www.hyperion-records.co.uk /top.html   (657 words)

  
 Hyperion SSTO
Hyperion would have taken 18,100 kg of payload or 110 passengers to orbit or on 45 minute flights to any point on earth.
Hyperion used a sled for launch, which would have seriously hurt its utility.
Hyperion would be travelling at 1100km/h as it left the sled at the end of the 3km launch rail.
www.astronautix.com /lvs/hypnssto.htm   (515 words)

  
 Universe Today - Vivid View of Spongy Hyperion
Hyperion is only 266 kilometers (165 miles) across, has an irregular shape, and spins in a chaotic rotation.
Images of Hyperion taken on Sept. 26 show a surface dotted with craters and modified by some process, not yet understood, to create a strange, "spongy" appearance, unlike the surface of any other Saturn moon.
A false-color image of Hyperion reveals crisp details and variations in color across the strange surface that might represent differences in the composition of materials.
www.universetoday.com /am/publish/view_spongy_hyperion.html?3092005   (706 words)

  
 Royal Huisman
Indeed it can be said that Hyperion's 'milestones' include her carbon fiber mast at 59 m length, exerting some 200 compressive tons at it's base, or her computer, powered with some 500 billions bytes.
Powered by a 1.100 hp MTU diesel engine driving a LIPS variable pitch propeller, Hyperions 9,56m beam and 4,8m draft (7,3m - carbon centerboard down) can easily be driven through the water at 16 knots, and during her maiden transatlantic voyage she managed a sailing speed of 19 knots.
Hyperion participated in the Millennium Cup races in New Zealand and came out as winner of this exciting race.
www.royalhuisman.com /p_mi_hyperion.htm   (241 words)

  
 Hyperion Cantos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hyperion universe originated when Simmons was an English teacher, as an extended tale he told at intervals to his young students; this is recorded in "The Death of the Centaur", and its introduction.
Hyperion is tectonically dead, and thus there is no continental drift and no significant electromagnetic field (which implies that a compass does not work).
Hyperion is somewhere in the lengthy process of being approved for inclusion into the Worldweb -- that is, the planets of the Hegemony of Man that are linked by the farcaster network.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hyperion_Cantos   (4121 words)

  
 Business Performance Management software, enterprise performance management - Hyperion
Hyperion delivers the visibility into your business that you need to answer these questions—and helps you do what has to be done to improve performance and successfully reach your goals.
Hyperion solutions can help you drive performance improvements by better aligning goals with metrics, increasing your operational efficiency and becoming more comfortable with the integrity of your numbers.
Hyperion generated revenues of US$765 million for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2006 and is traded under the Nasdaq symbol HYSL.
www.hyperion.com /company/overview   (243 words)

  
 Cassini Imaging Diary
Hyperion: Parting Glance - As Cassini sped away from its close encounter with Hyperion on September 26, 2005, it took this parting shot of the battered moon’s shadowy limb.
Hyperion Raw Preview #1 - This unprocessed image was taken during Cassini's close approach to Hyperion on September 26, 2005.
Hyperion Raw Preview #2 - This unprocessed image was taken during Cassini's close approach to Hyperion on September 26, 2005.
ciclops.org /view_event.php?id=37   (335 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos): Books: Dan Simmons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Hyperion is the first of a much-heralded two-part work -- including the The Fall of Hyperion--about the last days of a vibrant yet self-destructive galactic civilization of humans called the Hegemony.
Hyperion reads like Canterbury Tales, with each chapter of the story being told by one of the seven pilgrims on their way to meet a monster of mythic proportions, the Shrike.
Hyperion is not an independent novel in its own right but the first part of a story that is told in two books.
www.amazon.co.uk /Hyperion-Cantos-Dan-Simmons/dp/0747234825   (1914 words)

  
 NASA's Solar System Exploration: Planets: Saturn: Moons: Hyperion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Hyperion [hi-PEER-ee-en] is the largest irregularly shaped natural satellite ever observed, even though it is one of the smaller moons of Saturn.
It is likely that Hyperion may have been bombarded with meteors, which blew part of this moon away and caused its highly irregular shape.
The largest crater on its surface is approximately 120 kilometers (75 miles) in diameter and 10 kilometers (6 miles) deep.
solarsystem.nasa.gov /planets/profile.cfm?Object=Hyperion   (171 words)

  
 Hyperion Solutions Corporation - Investor FAQs
Hyperion was incorporated on April 12, 1991 in the state of Delaware, under the name Arbor Software.
Hyperion acquired Brio, a leading provider of Business Intelligence (BI) software and a technology partner of Hyperion since 1996, because we believe that BI is a core component of Business Performance Management (BPM).
Hyperion expects to capture customers earlier in the buying cycle when their needs grow from simple reporting against transactional systems to dynamic performance monitoring of key operational measures to KPI (key performance indicators) dashboarding.
ir.hyperion.com /faq.cfm   (2907 words)

  
 Math Trek: Chaotic Moon, Science News Online, Oct. 15, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Hyperion's strangeness wasn't evident when the satellite was first identified in 1848.
What we now call Hyperion may be merely the biggest chunk left over from a massive catastrophic impact that left the satellite a scarred, craggy shadow of its former self.
Because the chaotic zone surrounding the 4:3 resonance between the orbital periods of Hyperion and Titan is so vast, the chance that the satellite's orbit will ever reach one of the few small islands of stability in the vicinity appears minimal.
www.sciencenews.org /articles/20051015/mathtrek.asp   (1044 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Hyperion: Books: Dan Simmons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Though 'Hyperion' is dependent upon its sequel and ends with a tooth-grinding cliff-hanger, it is in its way self-contained.
'Hyperion' is centered on the six pilgrims' tales, their pasts, the terrible needs which drive them to confront what is almost certain death--or worse.
"Hyperion" is the story of the Shrike, a mysterious, murderous, unstoppable, and unknowable entity that seems to defy the laws of physics and probability.
www.amazon.com /Hyperion-Dan-Simmons/dp/0553283685   (2129 words)

  
 Hyperion
Hyperion is the 3rd farthest moon from Saturn, with a standoff distance of 1,481,000 km.
Hyperion is 175 x 100 km (117 x 67 miles) in size.
One of the main characteristics of Hyperion is its unusual shape.
www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/saturn/moons/hyperion.html   (128 words)

  
 The Global Resource Directory- Autodesk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Hyperion, the global leader in Business Performance Management software, is donating Hyperion Enterprise, Pillar and Performance Suite Business Intelligence platform tools to help nonprofit organizations with processes including budgeting, plannning, and annual and financial reporting software.
Hyperion Enterprise is a great solution for finance departments who are looking for a financial consolidation and reporting point solution, now with the option for some end-user web-enablement.
Hyperion Pillar is the market-leading enterprise budgeting, planning and forecasting application installed in more than 1300 companies worldwide.
www.giftsinkind.org /resources/hyperion_software.asp   (656 words)

  
 Hyperion Web Site Terms of Use   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
In the event you download software from the Hyperion Site, the software, including any files, images incorporated in or generated by the software, and data accompanying the software (collectively, the "Software") are licensed to you by us or third-party licensors for your personal, noncommercial home use only.
Hyperion is controlled and operated by The Walt Disney Company and its affiliates from its U.S. offices in New York.
Those who choose to access a Hyperion Site do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.
www.hyperionbooks.com /termsofuse.html   (1544 words)

  
 HYPERION Series FT-IR microscopy
The HYPERION™ 2000 includes all features found on the 1000 as does the 3000 with respect to the 2000.
The HYPERION™ series is unique in that it can be upgraded from a base configuration to full focal plane array based imaging.
The innovative design of HYPERION™'s ATR objective enables it to be used as a 20x objective and for ATR surface measurements.
www.brukeroptics.com /hyperion/index.html   (846 words)

  
 JPL.NASA.GOV: News Releases
Hyperion is decidedly non-spherical and its unusual shape is easy to see in the movie, which was acquired over the course of two and a half days.
Preliminary estimates of its density show that Hyperion is only about 60 percent as dense as solid water ice, indicating that much of its interior (40 percent or more) must be empty space.
Hyperion is close to the size limit where, like a child compacting a snowball, internal pressure due to the moon’s own gravity will begin to crush weak materials like ice, closing pore spaces and eventually creating a more nearly spherical shape.
www.jpl.nasa.gov /news/news.cfm?release=2005-114   (381 words)

  
 Hyperion Solutions Corporation - Corporate Governance
Hyperion is committed to upholding sound corporate governance and ethics practices.
The company promotes this commitment through numerous policies and procedures, which provide structure for the operation of Hyperion that is consistent with our stockholders' best interests and the requirements of the law.
Hyperion is responsible for ensuring that our reported financial results fairly reflect the results of our operations.
ir.hyperion.com /governance/directors.cfm   (786 words)

  
 Hyperion Systems Engineering -
Hyperion Systems Engineering Ltd, which provides world class custom made solutions and services to process industries worldwide, announced today that it has successfully been awarded a certificate by EuroCert, under the ISO 9001:2000 standard, for their Quality Management System, for the Modeling and Simulation Solutions business.
Hyperion announced the signing of an agreement with Plastika Kritis ABEE for the implementation of a production scheduling solution for their master batches plant in Iraklion, Crete which will be based on the Aspen Mimi Plant Scheduler TM platform.
Hyperion has given two awards total of CYP 500 to the two best students of the academic year 2000-2001 in the schools of Physics and school of History and Archeology.
www.hyperion.com.cy /EN/news/press_releases   (1479 words)

  
 Dynalogic Hyperion computer
The Hyperion portable desktop computer is the next step in the application of ergonomic science to man's most sophisticated tool.
As one of the few computers from Canada, the Hyperion is a portable computer system similar to the Compaq Portable.
To the best of my knowledge Commodore never did release a system based on the Hyperion, but the flyer seen here to the left confirms that they were at least seriously considering it.
oldcomputers.net /hyperion.html   (373 words)

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