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	Giovanni Cassini Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Cassini was an astronomer at the Panzano Observatory, from 1648 to 1669.
		Cassini was the first to observe four of Saturn's moonss; he also discovered the Cassini Division (1675).
		Cassini was employed, by the Pope, in regards to fortifications, river management, and flooding of the Po.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/g/gi/giovanni_cassini.html (168 words)

	Cassini-Huygens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Cassini's instrumentation consists of: a synthetic aperture RADAR mapper, a CCD imaging system, a visible/infrared mapping spectrometer, a composite infrared spectrometer, a cosmic dust analyzer, a radio and plasma wave experiment, a plasma spectrometer, an ultraviolet imaging spectrograph, a magnetospheric imaging instrument, a magnetometer, an ion/neutral mass spectrometer.
		Cassini's launch trajectory did not bring it within suitable vicinity of any large metropolis and the design of the RTGs would mean that they would be very unlikely to even fracture in the case of a catastrophic mission abort.
		Cassini released the Huygens probe on 25 December 2004, by means of a spring.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cassini-Huygens (4687 words)

	GIOVANNI DOMENICO CASSINI FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Cassini was the first to make successful measurements of longitude by the method suggested by Galileo, using eclipses of the satellites of Jupiter as a clock.
		In 1669 Cassini moved to France and through a grant from Louis XIV of France helped to set up the Paris_Observatory which opened in 1671; Cassini would remain the director of it for the rest of his career until his death in 1712.
		Cassini was employed by Pope_Clement_IX in regard to fortifications, river_management, and flooding of the Po.
	www.witwib.com /Giovanni_Domenico_Cassini (476 words)

	Giovanni Domenico Cassini biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Cassini was the first to observe four of Saturn's moons; he also discovered the Cassini Division (1675).
		In 1669 Cassini moved to France and through a grant from Louis XIV of France helped to set up the Paris Observatory which opened in 1671; Cassini would remain the director of it for the rest of his career until his death in 1712.
		While in France Cassini also served as the court astronomer/astrologer of Louis XIV of France ("The Sun King") for 41 years, serving the expected dual role yet focusing the overwhelming majority of his time on astronomy rather than the astrology he had studied so much of in his youth.
	giovanni-domenico-cassini.biography.ms (485 words)

	Giovanni Domenico Cassini -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Giovanni Domenico Cassini (June 8, 1625 - September 14, 1712) was an (A native or inhabitant of Italy) Italian- (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French (A physicist who studies astronomy) astronomer and (A person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems) engineer.
		Cassini was born in Perinaldo, (A seaport in northwestern Italy; provincial capital of Liguria) Genoa.
		Cassini was the first to observe four of (A giant planet which is surrounded by three planar concentric rings of ice particles; 6th planet from the sun) Saturn's (Any natural satellite of a planet) moons; he also discovered the (Click link for more info and facts about Cassini Division) Cassini Division (1675).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/G/Gi/Giovanni_Domenico_Cassini.htm (738 words)

	ESA - Science - People - Astrology to astronomy: Jean-Dominique Cassini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Cassini was born Giovanni Domenico Cassini in Perinald, Imperia, Italy, on 8 June 1625.
		In 1668 Cassini compiled tables showing the positions of Jupiter’s satellites and this was used by the Danish astronomer Ole Rømer to establish that the speed of light is finite.
		Cassini was a traditionalist by nature and, although he accepted some theories but also dismissed others which have since proved to be true, he stands among some of the most important scientists of the 17th and 18th centuries.
	www.esa.int /esaSC/SEMJ2T57ESD_people_0.html (546 words)

	Saturn's Moon Rhea
		The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 14, 2005, at a distance of approximately 247,000 kilometers (153,000 miles) from Rhea and at a Sun-Rhea-spacecraft, or phase angle of 70 degrees.
		The images were acquired with the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on Jan. 16, 2005, at a distance of approximately 496,500 kilometers (308,600 miles) from Rhea and at a Sun-Rhea-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 35 degrees.
		The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 239,000 kilometers (149,000 miles) from Rhea and at a Sun-Rhea-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 56 degrees.
	www.solarviews.com /eng/rhea.htm (1223 words)

	Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625-1712)
		Giovanni Domenico (or, in French, Jean Dominique) Cassini was born on June 8, 1625 in Perinaldo (near Nice, now France).
		Cassini was the founder of a dynasty of four astronomers in Paris: His son Jaques Cassini (Cassini II, 1677-1756), his grandson César François Cassini (Cassini III, 1714-84) and his grand-grandson Jean Dominique Cassini (Cassini IV, 1748-1845) followed him as directors of the Paris Observatory.
		He is reported by his son, Jacques Cassini, to have discovered a "nebula" somewhen before 1711 in the area between Canis Major and Canis Minor and "which was one of the finest to be seen in the telescope".
	www.seds.org /messier/xtra/Bios/cassini.html (594 words)

	Saturn's Moon Tethys
		The image was acquired using the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 69,200 kilometers (43,000 miles) from Tethys and at a Sun-Tethys-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 21 degrees.
		The view was obtained using the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 19,000 kilometers (11,800 miles) from Tethys and at a Sun-Tethys-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 17 degrees.
		The images for this view were obtained using the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera at distances ranging from approximately 18,400 to 19,000 kilometers (11,400 to 11,800 miles) from Tethys and at a Sun-Tethys-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 17 degrees.
	www.solarviews.com /eng/tethys.htm (2473 words)

	Cassini, Giovanni Domenico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Having assisted two astronomers at an observatory near Bologna, Cassini was made professor of astronomy at the University of Bologna at the age of 25.
		Cassini refused to accept the Copernican cosmological model and rejected the concept of a finite speed of light, although its proof was demonstrated by Danish astronomer Ole Römer using Cassini's own data.
		Cassini correctly suggested that the rings were composed of myriads of tiny satellites.
	cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/C/Cassini/1.html (244 words)

	Giovanni Domenico Cassini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Cassini interpreted this as a glorification of is chief Louis XIV., so maybe this was the reason that it lasted twelve years before Cassini still as the director of the Paris observatory announced the discovery of two more moons of Saturn: Dione and Tethys.
		In the meantime in 1675 Cassini was able to sign also for the discovery of the main 4450 kilometer gap within the Saturn rings, the Cassini division.
		Another discovery of Cassini is the zodiacal light, an exaterristical sky illumination on the ecliptic plane caused by interplanetary dust and the reflected sunlight within the dust.
	www.surveyor.in-berlin.de /himmel/Bios/Cassini-e.html (625 words)

	MSN Encarta - Saturn (planet)
		The spacecraft were also equipped with instruments for studying magnetic fields and for detecting charged particles and interplanetary grains.
		The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched an orbiter called the Cassini spacecraft toward Saturn in October 1997.
		Cassini launched a probe (the Huygens probe) that descended to the surface of Saturn's moon Titan early in 2005.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761556443/Saturn_(planet).html (801 words)

	NASA - Giovanni Cassini
		Giovanni Domenico Cassini, (1625-1712), was an Italian-born French astronomer who discovered four moons of Saturn and a large gap in Saturn's ring system.
		Cassini's tables of the sun, published in 1662, established his reputation as an astronomer.
		Cassini's observations of Jupiter were so precise that he could distinguish between shadows cast by moons of Jupiter and fixed shadows on Jupiter's surface.
	www.nasa.gov /lb/worldbook/cassini_gio_worldbook.html (309 words)

	CosmicQuest @ The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
		Cassini was the first to observe Saturn's four moons.
		He also discovered a gap in the ring system of Saturn, which is now known as the Cassini division.
		Additionally, he calculated the deformation of Jupiter and its rotation time, watched the phases of Venus and clarified the visible surface marks of Mars.
	childrensmuseum.org /cosmicquest/fieldguide/astro_enlightenment.html (898 words)

	Cassini
		In 1650, Cassini became professor of mathematics and astronomy at the University of Bologna, filling the chair which had been vacant since the death of Cavalieri at the end of November 1647.
		Cassini's tables of Jupiter's moons were used to determine longitudes by providing a universal time with which to compare the local time at various positions on the Earth.
		Cassini's health began to deteriorate, in particular his eyesight became poor so that by 1711 he was nearly completely blind.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Cassini.html (2115 words)

	Giovanni Domenico Cassini and Christiaan Huygens
		Both Giovanni Domenico Cassini and Christiaan Huygens studied Saturn and her moons during the latter half of the 17th Century.
		Cassini was born in Perinaldo, Genoa in the Tuscany region of Italy on June 8, 1625.
		Cassini pere, continued to make many more important discoveries including that Cassini division in the rings of Saturn as well as those four moons.
	www.scienceandyou.org /articles/ess_17.shtml (1605 words)

	Cassini formula for Fibonacci numbers
		In fact Giovanni was brought up, not by his parents but by an uncle, a brother of his mother Julia Crovesi.
		Cassini's brilliant discoveries gave him an international reputation and led to him being invited to Paris by Louis XIV in 1668.
		Cassini became,in 1671, director of the Paris Observatory.Cassini would remain the director of it for the rest of his career until his death in 1712.
	milan.milanovic.org /math/english/pi/cassini.htm (621 words)

	EO Newsroom: New Images - Bologna, Italy—Home of Cassini
		Jean-Dominique Cassini (born Giovanni Cassini) a leading astronmer, mathematician, and engineer, began his scientific career at the Panzano Observatory in Bologna, Italy, in the middle of the 17th century.
		It was Cassini who discovered the large gap in Saturn’s rings (through which the Cassini spacecraft flew on June 30, 2004, as it entered into orbit) and four of Saturn’s moons: Iapetus, Rhea, Tethy, and Dione.
		Cassini’s other accomplisments in astronomy included measuring the period of rotation in Mars and Jupiter, analyzing the orbits of Jupiter’s moons, and mapping features on the surface of the moon.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16593 (279 words)

	Cassini, Gian Domenico -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		French Jean-dominique Cassini Italian-born French astronomer who, among others, discovered Cassini's division, the dark gap between the rings A and B of Saturn; he also discovered four of Saturn's moons.
		Gian Domenico Cassini was the first of four generations of his family to hold the post of director of the observatory.
		The Italian-born astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini was the first in a four-generation dynasty of French scientists who served as director of the Paris Observatory.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9020655?tocId=9020655 (724 words)

	Giovanni Cassini
		Giovanni Cassini was Italian-French astronomer who lived between 1625-1712.
		He discovered that Saturn's Rings are split into two parts, and today the gap between them is called the "Cassini Division".
		Cassini studied hydrology and how to avoid the damaging floods that plagued Europe.
	www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/people/enlightenment/cassini.html (118 words)

	Directory - Science: Astronomy: History: People: Cassini, Giovanni
		Giovanni Cassini was an Italian-born French astronomer who, among others, discovered Cassini's division, the dark gap between the A and B rings of Saturn.
		Giovanni Cassini · cached · Brief information about the life of Cassini (1625-1712) and his discoveries.
		Giovanni Domenico Cassini · Short biography of Giovanni Domenico Cassini by Jens Dengler.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=5884237 (70 words)

	Saturn Sightings: Tethys
		This image (not shown) was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on Sept. 9, 2004, at a distance of 8.8 million kilometers (5.5 million miles) from Tethys, and at a Sun-Tethys-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 81 degrees.
		Cassini is conducting a four-year orbital mission, circling Saturn 77 times and cruising by more than 50 close encounters (and another dozen or so more-distant encounters) with the planet's moons.
		Cassini has already discovered a few that were unknown from ground observation and an earlier Voyager flyby.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/cassini-04zzzg.html (831 words)

	ARVAL - Image Gallery - Cassini-Huygens to Saturn
		The spacecraft is named in honor of Giovanni Cassini, the 17th century astronomer who discovered gaps in Saturn's rings.
		Scientists used joint observations from Cassini and the Galileo spacecraft to reveal a vast, invisible whirling bubble of charged particles surrounding Jupiter.
		Cassini also revealed Jupiter's radiation belts to be much harsher than expected - information that will help engineers protect future robotic spacecraft - and spotted new details in Jupiter's auroras.
	www.oarval.org /Cassinien.htm (896 words)

	Cassini, Giovanni Domenico (1625-1712)
		Cassini became Professor of Astronomy at Bologna (1650) and later the first director of the Paris Observatory (1669), found the rotational periods of Mars and Jupiter, one of the polar caps of Mars (1666), and the distance to Mars (1672) by triangulation with the help of observations by Jean Richer.
		His refinement of the scale of the solar system led to a value of the astronomical unit only 7% short of that accepted today.
		Cassini’s son, Jacques (1677-1756), grandson Cesar Francois (1714-1784), and great-grandson Jean Dominique IV (1748-1845) all became successful astronomers, the first two succeeding the elder Cassini as director of the Paris Observatory.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/C/CassiniG.html (238 words)

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