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What is exceptional about the rotation of Hyperion? Give a possible explanation.
 
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The Kuiper Belt objects have orbits that
 
  A) carry them thousands of AU beyond the Sun.
  B) stay out just beyond Neptune and close to the ecliptic.
  C) stay sixty degrees ahead of or behind Jupiter.
  D) cross the orbit of Mars at perihelion.
  E) cross the orbit of Earth at perihelion.


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Reply #1 on: Jul 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

It is the only moon with one hemisphere not tidally fixed toward its planet; the rotation of Hyperion is called chaotic, as it turns toward whichever other moon it is passing at the time. It is probably a recent capture, and has not had time to settle down into synchronous rotation yet.

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