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Cassini was the surname of a famous family of astronomers, whose members include:
- Giovanni Domenico Cassini a.k.a. Jean-Dominique Cassini, Italian-French astronomer (1625-1712)
- Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (1677-1756), son of Giovanni Domenico
- Csar-Franois Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (1714-1784)
- Dominique, comte de Cassini, French astronomer (1748-1845)
- Alexandre de Cassini, French botanist (1781-1832)
The following are named after Giovanni Cassini:
- Cassini crater on Mars
- Cassini crater on the Moon
- Cassini Division, gap between rings of Saturn
- Cassini-Huygens, mission to Saturn and its moons, with one of its two main elements the Cassini orbiter
- The Cassini oval, a mathematical curve.
Other people named "Cassini":
- Oleg Cassini, fashion designer