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Messiernoun
A French surname.
Messiernoun
Charles Messier (1730-1817); a French astronomer who in 1774 published Nebulae and Star Clusters, a catalogue of 45 deep sky objects such as nebulae and star clusters. The purpose of the catalogue was to help comet hunters (like himself) and other astronomical observers to distinguish between permanent and transient objects in the sky. Objects in Messier's catalog are numbered, and the letter M (for Messier) is prepended to these numbers, as in M31 (the Andromeda Galaxy) or M13 (the globular cluster in Hercules).
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Messier
Messier is a relatively young lunar impact crater located on the Mare Fecunditatis. The crater has a discernible oblong shape that is not caused by foreshortening. The longer dimension is oriented in an east–west direction. Just to the west lies Messier A, a similar-sized crater with an oblong, doublet form. The longer dimension of this crater is oriented north–south, at right angles to Messier. This crater also has a curved bulge extending to the west. Messier A and B were photographed at high resolution by NASA's Lunar Orbiter V spacecraft In August of 1967. The oblique angle view is the best available view of the craters. The Lunar Orbiter V_041 image is archived at the Lunar and Planetary Institute website. The Lunar Orbiter V partial image shown here is derived from the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project effort to reprocess these images from the original tapes. The interiors of Messier and Messier A have a higher albedo than the surrounding mare. There is also a dark streak in the center of each crater. Two prominent, nearly linear rays extend westwards from the rim of Messier A, continuing over 100 kilometers towards the east edge of Mare Fecunditatis. The mare surface around the craters is also lightly marked by rays from other craters.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Messier is ranked #7532 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Messier surname appeared 4,413 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Messier.
94.9% or 4,191 total occurrences were White.
2% or 91 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.3% or 61 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.7% or 33 total occurrences were Asian.
0.5% or 24 total occurrences were Black.
0.2% or 13 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Messier in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Messier in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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The politics in the UK is getting messier at the same time when bank CEOs are being pressurised by investors to improve returns. In this environment...we see HSBC and Standard Chartered taking flight.
The politics in the UK is getting messier at the same time when bank CEOs are being pressurized by investors to improve returns. In this environment...we see HSBC and Standard Chartered taking flight.
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