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Giovanni Domenico Cassini

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Profession
Astronomer
Died
Sep 14, age 87
Zodiac
Gemini
Born in
Italy
About
Italian astronomer, engineer and mathematician who was the first to notice the division of the rings on Saturn and discovered four of the planet's satellites. The Cassini Division, a 4,800-kilometer gap between rings A and B around Saturn, is named in his honor.
Family
He was married to Genevieve de Laistre and had two sons, one of which, Jacques, also became an astronomer.

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