cassini

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

Other people named "Cassini": * Oleg Cassini, fashion designer

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