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Cassini” may refer to:

  • Cassini’s laws, laws about motion on the Moon.
  • Cassini Division, a gap in the Rings of Saturn.
  • Cassini-Huygens, a spacecraft that explored Saturn.
  • Cassini (Martian crater), a crater on Mars.
  • Cassini (lunar crater) A crater on the Moon.
  • 24101 Cassini, an asteroid.
  • Cassini Regio, the dark region on the moon Iapetus.
  • Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625–1712), Italian mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer.
  • Jacques Cassini (1677-1756), an astronomer.
  • César-François Cassini de Thury (1714-1784), an astronomer and cartographer.
  • Jean-Dominique, comte de Cassini (1748-1845), an astronomer.