Cassini may refer to:
People
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Cassini (surname)
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Oleg Cassini (1913-2006), American fashion designer
:Cassini family:
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Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625–1712), Italian mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer
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Jacques Cassini (1677–1756), French astronomer, son of Giovanni Domenico Cassini
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César-François Cassini de Thury
César-François Cassini de Thury (17 June 1714 – 4 September 1784), also called Cassini III or Cassini de Thury, was a French astronomer and cartographer.
Biography
Cassini de Thury was born in Thury-sous-Clermont, in the Oise departme ...
(1714–1784), French astronomer and cartographer, son of Jacques Cassini
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Jean-Dominique, comte de Cassini
Jean-Dominique, comte de Cassini (30 June 174818 October 1845) was a French astronomer, son of César-François Cassini de Thury and great-grandson of Giovanni Domenico Cassini.
Cassini was born at the Paris Observatory. He succeeded his fa ...
(1748–1845), French astronomer, son of César-François Cassini de Thury
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Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini (1781–1832), French botanist and naturalist, son of Jean-Dominique de Cassini
Planetary science
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Cassini's laws on the motion of the Moon
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Cassini Division
The rings of Saturn are the most extensive ring system of any planet in the Solar System. They consist of countless small particles, ranging in size from micrometers to meters, that orbit around Saturn. The ring particles are made almost entirel ...
, a gap in the rings of Saturn
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Cassini–Huygens
''Cassini–Huygens'' ( ), commonly called ''Cassini'', was a space research, space-research mission by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to send a space probe to study the planet Saturn and its system, i ...
'', the space mission to examine Saturn and its moons, of which the ''Cassini'' orbiter was a part
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Cassini (Martian crater)
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Cassini (lunar crater)
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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 ...
, an asteroid
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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 ...
, another asteroid
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Cassini Regio, the dark region of the moon Iapetus
Other uses
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Cassini, South Australia
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Cassini oval, a mathematical curve described by Giovanni Cassini
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Cassini projection, in map making
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Cassini Glacier, in Antarctica
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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 speci ...
, two species of insect
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French cruiser Cassini
''Cassini'' was the second member of the of torpedo cruisers built for the French Navy in the 1890s. The class is also sometimes classified as torpedo gunboats or torpedo avisos. The ''D'Iberville''-class ships were a development of earlier torp ...
, French Navy cruiser
See also
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Casini, a surname
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