Cassini may refer to:

People

  • Cassini (surname)
  • Oleg Cassini (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 (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 on the motion of the Moon
  • Cassini Division, a gap in the rings of Saturn
  • Cassini–Huygens, 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, an asteroid
  • 24102 Jacquescassini, another asteroid
  • Cassini Regio, the dark region of the moon Iapetus

Other uses

  • Cassini, South Australia
  • Cassini oval, a mathematical curve described by Giovanni Cassini
  • Cassini projection, in map making
  • Cassini Glacier, in Antarctica
  • Cassini periodical cicadas, two species of insect
  • French cruiser Cassini, French Navy cruiser

See also

  • Casini, a surname