Cassini may refer to:

People

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 ...

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 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, also known as Jean-Dominique Cassini (8 June 1625 – 14 September 1712) was an Italian (naturalised French) mathematician, astronomer and engineer. Cassini was born in Perinaldo, near Imperia, at that time in the ...

(1625–1712), Italian mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer *

Jacques Cassini Jacques Cassini (18 February 1677 – 16 April 1756) was a French astronomer, son of the famous Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini. Cassini was born at the Paris Observatory. Admitted at the age of seventeen to membership of the French ...

(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 Count Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini (9 May 1781 – 23 April 1832) was a French botanist and naturalist, who specialised in the sunflower family (Asteraceae) (then known as family Compositae). He was the youngest of five children of Jacque ...

(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 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 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, including its r ...

'', the space mission to examine Saturn and its moons, of which the ''Cassini'' orbiter was a part *

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 approximat ...

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 t ...

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 a ...

, 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 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 a ...

, the dark region of the moon Iapetus

Other uses

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 K ...

Cassini oval In geometry, a Cassini oval is a quartic plane curve defined as the locus of points in the plane such that the product of the distances to two fixed points ( foci) is constant. This may be contrasted with an ellipse, for which the ''sum'' of t ...

, 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, i ...

, in map making *

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 ...

, 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 spec ...

, two species of insect * French cruiser Cassini, French Navy cruiser

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