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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 6091. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxies, Individual Galaxies

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M91 in Coma Berenices was long regarded as one of the `missing' Messier objects, since nothing nebulous could be seen near its listed position. It was even suggested that Messier had really seen a comet at this position in March 1781 but not recognized its true nature. In 1969 a Texan amateur, William C Williams, gave what is now accepted as the probable answer: Messier originally measured the po...

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