Cassini may refer to:
People
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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
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Oleg Cassini (1913–2006), American fashion designer
Cassini family:
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Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Giovanni Domenico Cassini (8 June 1625 – 14 September 1712) was an Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and engineer. Cassini was born in Perinaldo, near Imperia, at that time in the County of Nice, part of the Savoyard sta ...
(1625–1712), Italian mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer
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Jacques Cassini
Jacques Cassini (18 February 1677 – 16 April 1756) was a French astronomer, son of the famous Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini. He was known as Cassini II.
Biography
Cassini was born at the Paris Observatory. He was first admitted ...
(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 depart ...
(1714–1784), French astronomer and cartographer, son of Jacques Cassini
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Jean-Dominique, comte de Cassini (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, 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, an asteroid
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24102 Jacquescassini, 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
The Cassini projection (also sometimes known as the Cassini–Soldner projection or Soldner projection) is a map projection first described in an approximate form by César-François Cassini de Thury in 1745. Its precise formulas were found thr ...
, 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 specie ...
, two species of insect
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French cruiser Cassini, French Navy cruiser
See also
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Casini, a surname
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