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RE: Messier?

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Posted by rjw12@st-and.ac.uk on July 11, 2000 15:26:36 UTC

Hi there Stephine -

Charles Messier was a famous French Astronomer. Although originally a comet hunter he discovered some of the most widely known (at least by the public) astronomical objects in the sky. Possibly the most famous is M42, the orion Nebula.

ok!

R.

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