Cassini may refer to:

People

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 ...

(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 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 * 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 Cassini's laws provide a compact description of the motion of the Moon. They were established in 1693 by Giovanni Domenico Cassini, a prominent scientist of his time.For the original statement of the laws, see Refinements of these laws to include ...

on the motion of the Moon *

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 * ''

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 * Cassini (Martian crater) * Cassini (lunar crater) *

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 *

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 * Cassini Regio, the dark region of the moon Iapetus

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* Cassini, South Australia * Cassini oval, a mathematical curve described by Giovanni Cassini *

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 map making * Cassini Glacier, in Antarctica *

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 * French cruiser Cassini, French Navy cruiser

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