title: Cassini
text: # Cassini
  
  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
  