Hyperion - A dead ‘comet’ object caught in the gravitational embrace of Saturn?

[Drifter]

If you look at current thinking on Hyperion …

 

see Wikipedia:      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(moon)

… it’s a bit surprising nobody openly appears to be proposing this is a dead captured comet whose final fragmentational demise was halted by the gravitational embrace of Saturn?

If you look at this NASA website that gives a rotational view of this wobbly object given extra instability by the proximal orbit of Titan:

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/hyperion/in-depth/

 

…. as you enlarge and spin the digital image around, then screenshot … it’s evident there may be a blunt-nosed head to this ‘moon’ with ‘wicking’ marks along the sides:

Phobos (although of different composition suggesting an asteroid) shows a similar serious indentation and striations along it’s body in alignment with the direction of the Stickney crater impact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_(moon)

 

 

Heat/velocity induced ‘wicking striations’ are better illustrated on the surface coma of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko:

 

 

 

…. probably created largely by a series of moderately toasty close encounter fly-bys of the Sun?

In summary, it seems logical to imagine Hyperion as a  ‘snowball’ of compacted ice/rock debris being smashed out of it’s cushy idyll nestling in the icy regions of the Kyper/Asteroid Belt - impelled on a trajectory - a close encounter with our Sun - it’s impacted rear ‘hollowed out’ further by cratering/flaking in a series of mini pock-marked explosions of ice/dust debris flying off the back end when the heat generated in solar transit reached critical point to create trapped gas/steam blow outs - eventually making Hyperion look like a piece of coral. 
Fair to say most of these craters in the first image don’t look much like impacts … more like ‘blow-outs’, … no?

You see similar blow-out marks on the surface of some meteorites of certain composition (particularly iron) that have penetrated and ignited in Earth’s atmosphere.

Other examples of pitting/striation marks on a smaller scale:

Just thought I’d sound out others on here who might have a similar impression about Hyperion.

[Zermelo]

Interesting. I wouldn't know enough to speculate; but for me, that image of Hyperion was the most amazing of all Cassini's output.