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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. In addition, he was the first to record observations of the zodiacal light.
...dependent on both distance from Saturn and wavelength of light. (Saturn’s equatorial radius is 60,268 km [37,449 miles].) It is separated visually from the outer major ring, the A ring, by the Cassini division, the most prominent gap in the major rings. Lying between 1.95 and 2.02 Saturn radii and not devoid of particles, the Cassini division exhibits complicated variations in optical...
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