An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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An unstable elementary particles, belonging to the class called → baryons, which have greater mass than the neutron but very short lives (10^-8 to 10^-10 seconds).

From → hyper- + → -on a suffix used in the names of elementary particles (gluon; meson; neutron; graviton, and so on).