Cassini
Appearance
Cassini may be:
Introduction
- Family of Italo-French scientists:
- Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625 – 1712), also known as Jean-Dominique Cassini, Italian-French astronomer
- Jacques Cassini (1677 – 1756), French astronomer, son of Giovanni Domenico
- César-François Cassini de Thury (1714 – 1784), French astronomer and cartographer, son of Jacques, who developed the Cassini projection
- Jean-Dominique de Cassini (1748 – 1845), first Count Cassini, French astronomer and cartographer, son of César-François
- Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini (1781 – 1832), known as Henri Cassini, French botanist, youngest son of Jean-Dominique
- Others:
- Igor Cassini (1915 – 2002), American gossip columnist, writing as "Cholly Knickerbocker"
- Oleg Cassini (1913 – 2006), American fashion designer
Astronomy
- 24101 Cassini, an asteroid
- 24102 Jacquescassini, another asteroid
- Cassini (lunar crater)
- Cassini (Martian crater)
- Cassini Division, gap between rings of Saturn
- Cassini Regio, the dark region of the moon Iapetus
Spacecraft
- Cassini orbiter, part of the Cassini–Huygens space probe
Mathematics
- Cassini oval, mathematical curve
Internet
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