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Cassini (spacecraft)
Cassini may refer to: People * Cassini (surname) * Oleg Cassini (1913-2006), American fashion designer :Cassini family: * Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625–1712), Italian mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer * Jacques Cassini (1677–1756), French astronomer, son of Giovanni Domenico Cassini * César-François Cassini de Thury (1714–1784), French astronomer and cartographer, son of Jacques Cassini * Jean-Dominique, comte de Cassini (1748–1845), French astronomer, son of César-François Cassini de Thury * Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini (1781–1832), French botanist and naturalist, son of Jean-Dominique de Cassini Planetary science * Cassini's laws on the motion of the Moon * Cassini Division, a gap in the rings of Saturn * ''Cassini–Huygens'', the space mission to examine Saturn and its moons, of which the ''Cassini'' orbiter was a part * Cassini (Martian crater) * Cassini (lunar crater) * 24101 Cassini, an asteroid * 24102 Jacquescassini, another aster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassini (surname)
Cassini is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini (1781–1832), French botanist and naturalist, son of Jean-Dominique de Cassini * Arthur Cassini (1836–1913), Russian diplomat * César-François Cassini de Thury (1714–1784), French astronomer and cartographer, son of Jacques, who developed the Cassini projection * Dominique, comte de Cassini (1748–1845), first Count Cassini, French astronomer and cartographer, son of César-François * Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625–1712), also known as Jean-Dominique Cassini, Italian-French astronomer * Henri Cassini (1781–1832), known as Henri Cassini, French botanist, youngest son of Jean-Dominique * Igor Cassini (1915–2002), American gossip columnist, writing as "Cholly Knickerbocker" * Jacques Cassini (1677–1756), French astronomer, son of Giovanni Domenico * Oleg Cassini Oleg Cassini (11 April 1913 – 17 March 2006) was a fashion designer born to an aristocratic Russi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassini (lunar Crater)
Cassini is a lunar impact crater that is located in the Palus Nebularum, at the eastern end of Mare Imbrium. The crater was named after astronomers Giovanni Cassini and Jacques Cassini. To the northeast is the Promontorium Agassiz, the southern tip of the Montes Alpes mountain range. South by south-east of Cassini is the crater Theaetetus. To the northwest is the lone peak Mons Piton. Description The floor of Cassini is flooded, and is likely as old as the surrounding mare. The surface is peppered with a multitude of impacts, including a pair of significant craters contained entirely within the rim. Cassini A is the larger of these two, and it lies just north-east of the crater center. A hilly ridge area runs from this inner crater toward the south-east. Near the south-west rim of Cassini is the smaller crater Cassini B. The walls of this crater are narrow and irregular in form but remain intact despite the lava flooding. Beyond the crater rim is a significant and irregular outer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassini Periodical Cicadas
The Cassini periodical cicadas are a pair of closely related species of periodical cicadas: ''Magicicada cassini'' (Fisher, 1852), having a 17-year life cycle, and '' Magicicada tredecassini'' (Alexander and Moore, 1962), a nearly identical species with a 13-year life cycle. Courting behavior of Cassini cicadas is unusual because large groups of males may sing and fly together in synchrony. Bursts of sound alternate with silence as thousands of males sing in unison, then leave perches and seek a new perch before the next ensemble song. Description All ''Magicicada'' species have a black dorsal thorax with red eyes and orange wing veins. Cassini periodical cicadas are smaller than decim periodical cicadas. The abdomen is black except for occasional faint orange-yellow marks on the ventral surface seen in some location. In a typical brood of periodical cicadas, decim and decula types will be present as well as cassini. The three different types have unique species song-types; th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassini Glacier
Cassini Glacier is a steep glacier between Goat Mountain and Bonne Glacier, descending northwest from Hobbs Ridge into Blue Glacier, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. One of a group of names in the area associated with surveying applied in 1993 by the New Zealand Geographic Board The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (NZGB) was established by the New Zealand Geographic Board Act 1946, which has since been replaced by the New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008. Althoug ..., it was named from the Cassini map projection, a cylindrical projection in which the cylinder is at right angles to the axis of the globe. References * Glaciers of Victoria Land Scott Coast {{ScottCoast-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassini Projection
The Cassini projection (also sometimes known as the Cassini–Soldner projection or Soldner projection) is a map projection described by César-François Cassini de Thury in 1745. It is the transverse aspect of the equirectangular projection, in that the globe is first rotated so the central meridian becomes the "equator", and then the normal equirectangular projection is applied. Considering the earth as a sphere, the projection is composed of the operations: :x = \arcsin(\cos \varphi \sin \lambda) \qquad y = \arctan\left(\frac\right). where ''λ'' is the longitude from the central meridian and ''φ'' is the latitude. When programming these equations, the inverse tangent function used is actually the atan2 function, with the first argument sin ''φ'' and the second . The reverse operation is composed of the operations: :\varphi = \arcsin(\sin y \cos x) \qquad \lambda = \operatorname(\tan x, \cos y). In practice, the projection has always been applied to models of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassini Oval
In geometry, a Cassini oval is a quartic plane curve defined as the locus (mathematics), locus of points in the plane (geometry), plane such that the Product_(mathematics), product of the distances to two fixed points (Focus (geometry), foci) is constant. This may be contrasted with an ellipse, for which the ''sum'' of the distances is constant, rather than the product. Cassini ovals are the special case of polynomial lemniscates when the polynomial used has degree of a polynomial, degree 2. Cassini ovals are named after the astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini who studied them in the late 17th century. Cassini believed that the Sun traveled around the Earth on one of these ovals, with the Earth at one focus of the oval. Other names include Cassinian ovals, Cassinian curves and ovals of Cassini. Formal definition A Cassini oval is a set of points, such that for any point P of the set, the ''product'' of the distances , PP_1, ,\, , PP_2, to two fixed points P_1, P_2 is a consta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassini, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Cassini is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the north coast of Kangaroo Island overlooking Investigator Strait about south-west of the state capital of Adelaide and about from the municipal seat of Kingscote. Its boundaries were created in 2002 in respect to “the long established name” which is derived from the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Cassini. The principal land use is agriculture with a small amount of land being zoned for conservation. The latter use consists of the protected areas of the Lathami Conservation Park and the Parndana Conservation Park, and the strip of land along the coastline. The locality includes the former Cassini Station Complex and Mulberry Tree which is listed on the South Australian Heritage Register. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Cassini had a population of 81 people. Cassini is located within the federal division of Mayo, the state electoral d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassini Regio
Cassini Regio (adjective ''Cassinian'' ) is the enigmatic dark area that covers the leading half of Saturn's moon Iapetus. It is named after Giovanni Cassini, the discoverer of Iapetus; ' Regio' is a term used in planetary geology for a large area that is strongly differentiated in colour or albedo from its surroundings. The brighter half of Iapetus is composed of the Roncevaux Terra and the Saragossa Terra. The nature of the material that caused the extensive discoloration of Cassini Regio is not known, but it appears to be quite thin. It may be the result of cryovolcanism, a spattering of material from outer moons, or residue left by the sublimation of brighter ice. In December 2004 an image taken by the NASA ''Cassini'' probe revealed that a long ridge of high mountains runs down the centre of Cassini Regio, almost perfectly following Iapetus's equator. The origin of this extremely unusual feature is as yet unknown. ''Cassini'' completed a flyby of Iapetus in September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
24102 Jacquescassini
41 may refer to: * 41 (number) * one of the years 41 BC, AD 41, 1941, 2041 Art and entertainment * ''41'' (film), a 2007 documentary about Nicholas O'Neill, the youngest victim of the Station nightclub fire * ''41'', a 2012 film by Glenn Triggs * ''41'', a 2012 documentary about President George H. W. Bush. * "#41" (song), a song by the Dave Matthews Band * '' Survivor 41'', the 41st installment of CBS's reality program ''Survivor'' * "Forty One", a song by Karma to Burn from the album ''Appalachian Incantation'', 2010 People * George H. W. Bush, or "Bush 41" (to distinguish him from his son, George W. Bush), 41st President of the United States * Nick "41" MacLaren, member of the New Zealand hip hop duo Frontline See also * HP-41C, a series of calculators made by Hewlett-Packard ** FOCAL (Hewlett-Packard) The HP-41C series are programmable, expandable, continuous memory handheld RPN calculators made by Hewlett-Packard from 1979 to 1990. The original model, HP-41C, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
24101 Cassini
24101 Cassini, provisional designation ', is an eccentric background asteroid from the middle region of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 9 November 1999, by American amateur astronomer Charles Juels at the Fountain Hills Observatory in Arizona, United States. It was named after Italian–French astronomer Giovanni Cassini. Orbit and classification ''Cassini'' is a non-family from the main belt's background population. It orbits the Sun in the central asteroid belt at a distance of 1.8–3.5 AU once every 4 years and 4 months (1,571 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.31 and an inclination of 15 ° with respect to the ecliptic. In December 1926, the asteroid was first identified as ' at Heidelberg Observatory in Germany. The body's observation arc begins 7 years prior to its official discovery observation, with a precovery taken at La Silla Observatory in March 1992. Physical characteristics Lightcurve In Febr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassini (Martian Crater)
Cassini is a crater on Mars named in honour of the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini. The name was approved in 1973, by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature. The crater measures approximately 415 kilometers in diameter and can be found at 327.9°W and 23.4°N. It is in the Arabia quadrangle of Mars. Pictures of small craters on the floor of Cassini reveal multiple layers. Some of these layers can be easily seen in the pictures below. Many places on Mars show rocks arranged in layers. Rock can form layers in a variety of ways. Volcanoes, wind, or water can produce layers. A detailed discussion of layering with many Martian examples can be found in Sedimentary Geology of Mars. Recent research leads scientists to believe that some of the craters in Arabia may have held huge lakes. Cassini Crater probably once was full of water since its rim seems to have been breached by the waters. Both inflow and outflow channels have been ob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleg Cassini
Oleg Cassini (11 April 1913 – 17 March 2006) was a fashion designer born to an aristocratic Russian family with maternal Italian ancestry. He came to the United States as a young man after starting as a designer in Rome, and quickly got work with Paramount Pictures. Cassini established his reputation by designing for films. He became particularly well known as a designer for Jacqueline Kennedy while she was First Lady of the United States. The "Jackie Look" was to become highly influential and much admired. Among Cassini's inspirations were sports and Native American culture. Early life He was born in Paris as Oleg Aleksandrovich Loiewski, the elder son of Countess Marguerite Cassini and her husband Count Alexander Loiewski, a Russian diplomat, thereby obtaining the title of Count. His maternal grandfather Arthur Paul Nicholas Cassini, Marquis de Capuzzuchi di Bologna, Count Cassini, had been the Russian ambassador to the United States during the administrations of Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
