M109

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 6109. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Galaxies, Individual Galaxies

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M109 is a barred spiral galaxy in Ursa Major, lying 0.66 degrees east of Gamma Ursae Majoris in the bowl of the Plough (or Big Dipper). As with M108, it was mentioned by Messier in his note on M97 but was not identified with a known galaxy until 1960, when O Gingerich concluded that it was the same as NGC 3992. M109 is classified as midway in type between SBb and SBc. Much of its central region s...

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